With the
development of the digital environment intellectual property faced new problems
and challenges. Therefore, the intellectual property industry is searching for
protection, control over the use of copyrights, patents and trademarks. Nowadays, the cloud technology is seen as a
solution and also creator of new problems in the intellectual property industry.
In the era
of cyber world as the usage of computers became more popular, there was
expansion in the growth of technology as well, and the term ‘Cyber’ became more
familiar to the people. The evolution of Information Technology (IT) gave birth
to the cyber space wherein internet provides equal opportunities to all the
people to access any information, data storage, analyse etc. with the use of
high technology. Due to increase in the number of netizens, misuse of
technology in the cyberspace was clutching up which gave birth to cyber crimes
at the domestic and international level as well.
Though
the word Crime carries its general meaning as “a legal wrong that can be
followed by criminal proceedings which may result into punishment” whereas
Cyber Crime may be “unlawful acts wherein the computer is either a tool or
target or both”.