Angelia_Abstract

Abstract

As the internet becomes more popular and more readily available everywhere, the importance of a successfully established and managed internet presence is usually self evident. Study shows that the Internet is more productive and has surpassed newspapers, radios, magazines for information and research regarding products and services. This makes internet the most favorite tool for artists to promote and expose their art pieces to the public.

Although the Internet has its strengths, however, there can be many negative aspects of the Internet, such as copyright infringement. Copyright infringement is alive and widespread on the internet today. All artists are concerned when they find out that their art piece has been reproduced or shown without their permission. Whether the art piece appears in print, on television, in film, or on the internet, issues of copyright infringement are more common than ever. To prevent such copyright infringement to occur, there has to be a database system for artist to register their art piece on the internet, whether it is a song, painting, or any other art forms. This would then be linked directly to all search engines available such that when someone tries to claim someone else’s art piece as his or hers by trying to upload the electronic files, the search engine would then first try search through the database to verify that the art piece is not registered to an artist. By doing this, it would definitely cut down art copyright infringement significantly.