Indian Perspective On Cyber Law and IPR Issues

The Model Law on Electronic Commerce on International Trade Law was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations (UNCITRAL) on January 30, 1997, and this resolution led to the creation of the Information Technology Act of 2000. One of the crimes with the fastest global growth is cybercrime. The Act addresses certain urgent concerns about technological misuse and has been successful in laying out the framework for rules in the cyberspace; nonetheless, there are other significant gaps that have not been addressed, such as those related to intellectual property. Knowledge or information with an economic value is referred to as intellectual property. Intellectual property rights, which include copyright, patent, trademark, and design, are a combination of ideas, innovations, and creations. Since these are products of the human mind, they are referred to as intellectual property. The Information Technology Act of 2000 has no mention of intellectual property protection, despite the fact that intellectual property infringement is one of the most difficult issues in cyberspace. Internet users can violate their domain names and copyright, yet the Trade Mark Act of 1999 and the Copy Right Act of 1957 say nothing about this. As a result, we lack the enforcement tools necessary to guarantee domain name protection online. It is now necessary for us to pass specific laws to safeguard intellectual property online.