INTELECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN DIGITAL ERA: QUESTIONS AND TENDENCIES

Abstract

The protection laws to the intellectual property have been reviewed and adjusted along the time with the objective of adapting them to the new sceneries created for the technological development. When being protected the responsibility right legally, the society intended to motivate the creation and the diversity, already impeding the unrestricted copy of works produced. Later, were introduced the mechanism of intellectual protection by means of patent, that granted the monopoly to its detainer in change of the complete information on the best way of doing what was being object of the patent. The analysis done in this article is mainly about the aspects of intellectual protection of the computer programs. These due to its own nature, they do not belonging comfortably in the traditional models of intellectual protection, provoking modifications in the legislation as well as reactions on the part of the software industry in the attempt of incorporating mechanisms of intellectual protection to its products.