Copyright in the Internet Age

Francis Gurry
 Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization

The old principles of intellectual property regulation are strained in the Age of the Internet. Reform is needed, says Francis Gurry, Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization
As the number of people in the world with access to the Internet passes two billion, few issues in intellectual property - or cultural policy - are as important as the consequences of the revolutionary structural change introduced by digital technology and the Internet, said Frances Gurry, Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization speaking last week at a conference on Future Direction in Copyright Law.
“Digital technology and the Internet have created the most powerful instrument for the democratisation of knowledge since the invention of moveable type for printing. They have introduced perfect fidelity and near zero-marginal costs in the reproduction of cultural works and an unprecedented capacity to distribute those works around the globe at instantaneous speeds and, again, near zero-marginal costs.


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Francis Gurry was speaking on 25 February 2016 at the Faculty of Law of the Queensland University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

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