Solution to UGC Net Question, June 2010 : Copyright issues in an electronic environment.

[DR MD GULNAWAZ AZAM]

  In traditional concept the copyright issue is an
intellectual right that means the author who wrote the books, a
researcher who find out the problem, a speaker who spoke, all these
responsible for their work. But in the IT era the
copyright issue is much extended on the basis of origin of electronic
document. The electronic document is the electronic form that store in
the digital form and in copyright issue only authorized person,
institute can access the electronic document. But explosion of
information the world divided into two parts i.e. Copyright access/used
and Open access/used. For copyright every nation make a constitute for
authorship copyright and it is follow universally and other side the
open access communities have creates an open forum in every fields of
information such as Software, Journal, Books etc. For example on
copyright issue we can’t install WINDOWS 7 Operating System from pirated
DVD while we can install LINUX Operating System because it is Open
Source Software. Same as we can download E-journal.
As a librarian /
Information officer we should consider the nature of electronic
documents and we should strictly concentrate that particular information
is either copyright or not and access protocol of electronic document
is most important point such as who share the Library database and who
modified the stored records because in electronic environment and E library, data are store in
digitalized form. The
password and digital signature are most common mechanism for protect
electronic document and this is like copyright
issue of electronic document

[zaidy]

Sir
your answer is very technical.