| Summary: | 碩士 === 雲林科技大學 === 科技法律研究所 === 99 === With the rapid development of Internet, distance between people has been dramatically narrowed and the interaction between information-providers and information has got more frequent. By utilizing various transmission techniques dedicated to Internet, people are able to transmit, or distribute articles, pictures, documents and voices online. Therefore, a clicking of a mouse and then reduplicating files may constitute a violation of copyright law。
In fact, Internet serves to be a media of transmission and, at the same time, provides the exchange and mutual sharing of digital information with copyright as well as without copyright. A variety of Internet applications, ranging from online buying and selling, making friends online to the controversial P2P which is used to download files, have entailed various novel business models and new technologies. There is always conflict between an emergence of a new technology and an old one. However, it is this conflict that makes new technologies merged into parts of human lives.
This study, first of all, will introduce types and evolution of technology of Internet transmission and, secondly, explore the impact of new technology on traditional copyright. Finally, a further statement of the Internet Service Providers’ responsibility for violating copyright law will be made. Concerning the new copyright law (article 90-4 to article 90-12), amended in May, 2009, which introduces the rules to make Internet Service Providers free from regulations (ex. DMCA’s safe harbor clauses), this study will put forward analyses and comments about these rules.
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