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Information Security: The role of
DOI (Digital Object Identifier)
N. Valarmathy * and K. Kaliyaperumal **
1. INTRODUCTION
Nowadays, Internet plays a vital role in the Information exchange. The
consumer of the Information need relevant and authenticated Information where as
the publisher needs copyright protection to the content. So, Information security is
essential to protect the valuable information from misuse and manipulations.
Intellectual Property Right (IPR) comprises of all those things that come from human
intellect whether they are ideas, inventions, words, music, theatre or art. This would
include books, periodicals pamphlets etc that are subject to patent coverage.
2. OBJECTIVES OF THIS PAPER
Intellectual property is the fruitful or useful out come of the efforts of
individual or intellectual creativity. If this effort can be allowed to exploit or copy by
others, there will be adverse effect in the context of creativity. But, there are some
arguments that the Important creative efforts should not be used for only individual,
but it should be used for the betterment of social, technological and cultural
development of the Nation. Thus, these rights will encourage human resources of the
country for innovative and technical progress. However, there are some mechanisms
and procedures available in the Digital environment to preserve the e- resources. This
paper intend to focus on the pros and cons of the mechanism such as DOI (Digital
Object Identifier)
3. AN OVERVIEW OF EXISTING COPYRIGHT
Copy right is a set of exclusive rights regulating the use of particular
expression of an idea or information. It is a most important type of Intellectual
Property Right. The copy right policies are different from one country to another It
protects skill, labor talent of an author who are responsible for publication of a
document, a piece of music photograph, TV serials and other creative works.
According to the copyright, the owner has right to prevent others from
copying selling, hiring out performing broadcasting or amending the work
/innovations publications developed by them. The copy right law is subject to
international treaties. The important international treaties are Berne convention and
Universal copyright convention. Berne convention allows following minimum basic
copyright laws and allowing for reciprocal protection for Nationals of different
countries. for example, a UK author can enjoy the US copyright laws and as well as
USA author enjoy UK copyright laws. But different countries follow different
copyright laws. As a result, it is very difficult to have uniform laws among them. And
many authors advocated that infringement of laws is worse in the networked
environment. Many opined that the establishment of single uniform law throughout
the World for networked environment will minimize copyright laws. But, it is not
easy to establish such laws.
* Anna University, Chennai 600 025
** Madras University, Chennai 600 005
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