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World Wide expectations and debates on how the Internet is a powerful tool, but may be robbing people of credit and their intellectual property.

Without doubt, the internet has created a serious issue in regards to intellectual property rights and the protection of those rights. Prior to the broad usage of the internet and availability of free software, it was much more difficult to steal another's works. Indeed, people copied albums onto cassette tapes, and others plagiarized books in order to garner better grades at school, but the incidences were not as widespread, and not necessarily for profit. Today, however, "stealing" has become mainstream.

The Disruptive Competition Project (DisCo) is a project to promote disruptive innovation and competition to policymakers. Plenty of other groups in DC defend incumbent industries and protect the status quo; DisCo brings together experts to explain how disruptive change in the modern economy promotes growth and advances our society.

How the Internet has required the change of laws regarding and protecting intellectual property.

The Internet provides users an unprecedented ability to access almost any content they desire with the click of a button, but sometimes this convenience allows users to obtain material to which they do not have legal rights. While some stand by these actions as just and others view it as theft, the Internet has undoubtedly added a new dimension of difficulties to the protection of intellectual property.

The rapid growth of the digital economy, enabled by broadband penetration, and coupled with increases in computing power and storage, creates global markets for content and rights holders. But it also creates a threat that - without adequate controls - piracy will damage the creative industries. The discussion paper on which this article is based, "Intellectual property rights in today's digital economy", therefore focuses in particular on the ways that the growing digital economy is impinging on copyright.

BitLaw is a comprehensive Internet resource on technology and intellectual property law. In this site, you will find complete copies of the United States Patent, Copyright, and Trademark statutes, as well as the relevant regulations from the Code of Federal Regulations. BitLaw also includes converted versions of the TMEP and MPEP (the office manuals created by the United States Trademark and Patent Offices, respectively). Each of these documents include links to the relevant statutory and regulatory sections. Finally, BitLaw contains a great deal of custom written descriptions of how these areas of the law affect the computer and technology industries

Over the past twenty years the Internet has introduced a new element into international society. With its multijurisdictional and multifunctional character, it has begun another revolution in communications which encompasses the full range of human activity, including research, education, social communications, politics, entertainment and commerce. The Internet has placed vast sources of information within the reach of average people and businesses.