Intellectual Property Rights: Open Access

Abstract

Copyright Law and Online Journalism in Bangladesh: The Lights are on, but Nobody is Home

Md Saiful Alam Chowdhury* and Md Waseq Ur Rahman

Bangladesh is one of the next eleven countries in the world with approximately 160 million people is experiencing a great boom in the growth of online news portals in the recent past due to the development of wireless communication technologies. The seemingly ease of online content production has been an integral perspective leading to the mushrooming of online news portals all over the country burgeoning a culture of substandard journalism. Lack of enforcement regarding the protection of intellectual properties is fueling this trend. Extremely weak to almost no copyrights protection system of Bangladesh has been victimizing every sector. It has been a stemming factor hindering innovation and creativity in the path to economic development of the nation. Without proper regulatory policies, newer technologies are adding to the wound. In this perspective, as an explanatory article, this paper analyzed the present situation of the online media portals of Bangladesh that sought out to literature focusing on copyright issues on other industries. This article stands its ground by the observations of the various cases of infringements and their implications on the entire industry.