Academic Research and Copyright Issues

Academic research is related to literary work and due to lots of similar research works the chances of getting illegally copied raises. So, to protect from being unauthorised copy of work Intellectual Property law gives protection by Copyright Act. For that it provides few essential criteria which need to be fulfilled. The guidelines are generally very common in all Countries. So, generally any research work which is done get protected easily in all countries. But if any person does not follow that guideline, then he or she shall not be protected by Copyright in lieu of protecting they get penalised. Copyright Act protect author by prohibiting others to copy work without permission.