CYBERCRIME AND THE ROLE OF THE HADOOBI AUTHORITY IN PROTECTING COPYRIGHT IN MOROCCAN LAW

Abstract

This study seeks to show that information and communication technology has enabled Internet users to commit other crimes that affected copyright and related rights by very modern technical means, as the moral and material rights of the author and the owners of rights related to the author are the fruits of their creativity in the fields of literature and art, they are the product of the so-called literary and artistic works, these rights have known wide circulation in the digital domain, these rights of a literary and financial nature find their framework in Moroccan law.
 These rights are widely exploited today in the Internet environment, as the latter provided the way to benefit from them by the exploiters of the Internet, and enabled their owners to publish their literary and artistic works and creations, but this environment posed several problems that affected those rights, especially literary and artistic works. Such as downloading them without the permission of their authors and exploiting them for commercial or profit purposes by others without paying their authors a fair reward for that exploitation, and also the difficulty of identifying the exploiters of these literary and artistic works, which misses the opportunity for authors to enjoy and benefit from their moral and material rights resulting from their intellectual creations, if users of Internet networks and platforms sharing digital content have the right to exploit intellectual works and benefit from their advantages, so should a degree of protection be guaranteed to the authors of these intellectual creations. In some cases, we find that these platforms block or pirate some intellectual creations that have achieved high rates of viewing, and then claim that these intellectual contents have been pirated or penetrated by Internet users, which poses with it the difficulty of determining the party responsible for the act of penetration or piracy.