Copyright in weblogs

Subject Areas : Journal of Knowledge Studies

sedigheh  Mohammad-Esmaeil ¹ (Department of Library and Information Science, Islamic Azad University, Sciences and Research Campus, Tehran)

Received: 2008-06-25 Accepted : 2008-12-04 Published : 2009-02-19

Keywords: Internet, Solutions, Weblogs, Copyright, Fair use, Standpoints,

Abstract :

After the emergence of the Internet, we have observed the appearance of new trends in the World Wide Web. One of the most outstanding events that has become so widespread during recent years is "Weblog", a new medium, which recently came to existence and became familiar all over the world. Today, thousands of weblogs, with different topics and millions of visitors exist, exchanging a great amount of information and thoughts. It has been recently announced that one weblog is made per second. However, using this informative and communicative technology makes a big challenge in the issues related to the editor’s rights. In fact, free access to the sources violates the laws concerning the editor’s rights. Now, this question is put forward: How is copyright in weblogs as a member of the big family of Internet? And also how are the webloggers rights observed? There are various perspectives regarding the necessity of observing editors’ rights in weblogs and how to force bloggers to consider this point. Therefore, in the present article, in addition to defining weblog, editor’s right and perspectives in this regard, we also aim to provide probable solutions.