DIGITAL COPYRIGHTS WORKS PROTECTION: DISCOURSE ON DECLARATIVE PRINCIPLES AND RECORDATION MECHANISM

Abstract

The impact of development of information and technology in relation to digital works on the internet has indicated a contribute in the digital environment through duplication or copying under the copyright system. Duplication that only intended to read only, and there is permanent as intended to store information itself. Copyright protection on the Internet focuses to any attempt to restrict access and usage of the creation. Considered that violation in all activities that involve copying or making new digital activities either artistic or literary work available to the public without permission (eg, linking, framing, sharing). Indonesia has ensured the protection of copyrighted works, especially in the digital era, by ratifying international treaties related to copyright in the digital era such as the WIPO Copyrights Treaty (WCT), the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT), and the Beijing Treaty on Audio-Visual Performance. These three treaties regulate economic rights and moral rights for creators and performers, including those related to music and songs in the digital (internet) era Indonesian Copyright Law has regulations about Copyrights Recordation and Its recordation can be applied by applicant(s) even Creator or the Owner of Copyrights to Directorate General Intellectual Property (Indonesia IP Office). Certificate of Recordation will make easy proved if any dispute happening event takes proceedings either court or non-court settlement. Based on the declarative principle, there is a problem about contradiction between recordation and copyright protection which is published in the internet. This article discusses the existence of copyright recordation regulation that causes its to be breached copyright ownership principles to be gotten protection since that creation first time is publicized (first to publish).