Liability of Internet Service Providers for copyright infringement

Abstract

Growing and expanding so-called Information Society, the most valuable asset is the intellectual, either in its technological aspect, commercial or authorial. The Information Society has led to controversial issues: one on intellectual property specifically relating to copyright in the network, dealt with different perspectives, different laws and dissimilar trends. Precisely in this research will address the liability of Internet Service Providers (ISP) for unauthorized downloads against copyright. For this study will address the various laws and treaties that have governed the issue, the protection mechanisms and the positions embraced by each country in order to protect the copyright. As you will see there is a single outlet to the problem of unauthorized downloads, will depend on the system hosted by each country, but what if it is conclusive that there is still that all countries in the world to adopt a system of protection for individual good is most valuable as intellectual property.