The Current State of the Legal Protection of Intellectual Rights within the Scope of Private International Law

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the current reality  of the protection  of intellectual rights legally in accordance with the references of private international law by following the descriptive and analytical research methodology for the most important international legal sources to regulate and protect intellectual rights, including laws, charters, principles, regulations and guides for framing intellectual rights, classifying them, mechanisms and means of protecting them and dealing with violators of rights. In this study, a set of questions were revealed with objective reference and comparative analysis related to the nature of intellectual rights and their ownership; Through the development of the Internet as the first medium in the publication, exchange of information and data,  lead to the violation and confiscation of property rights, as the Internet facilitated the violation of intellectual rights without material compensation which complicated the possibility of owners to protect their rights due to the large number of violators and their presence in different countries. On the other hand, preventing the dissemination and exploitation of ideas considering the Internet has in fact become a difficult and even very complex and difficult matter. This makes the analysis of the current reality of intellectual rights and their property legal protection in accordance with what is applicable in private international law, to enrich real legal protection, material and moral protection of intellectual rights of all kinds.