Essence of Copyright By Raheel R Daureeawo LLM

Raheel R. Daureeawo

Abstract

Copyright is and has always been about policy. And what I intend to discuss in this paper is a list of topics which have always been center of debate in copyright courts. Although each topic is a book in itself, but my attempt here is to consolidate this list. The goal of the law of copyright has always been to promote scientific, literary and artistic creativity and protect as well as limit these rights in order to prevent monopolies. In order to understand the present and future of copyright it is imperative to know its past. There is a debate between scholars whether copyright law always existed in common law or had a definite beginning. However most historians agree about the emergence of copyright law. It was England sometime in the middle of the 17th Century and the printing press was a booming business. Only the rich and powerful people could afford to have printing presses. Books were in great demand because it contained lot of information to educated class which sometime contained blasphemous information which the church did not approve