Copyright Triggers New Concept for Cooperation in the Internet

Oleksandr S. Mamunya

For quite a few years now copyright holders suffering significantly from infringements in the Internet and intellectual property professionals protecting the former have been talking about the necessity to establish clear rules for copyright protection in the said area. Moreover, the community has realized that to make the protection process really effective intermediaries like Internet service providers, including hosting providers (the ISPs), should also be somehow engaged in the said protection. This idea has come to the minds of Ukrainian intellectual property practitioners, inter alia, in light of the successful foreign regulations for copyright protection in the Internet engaging ISPs and the respective practice by foreign colleagues...