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A Study on Knowledge Society and Copyright Misuse

The development of knowledge affects our human society in various aspects. In the past, knowledge was conducted on a production factor, but these days knowledge is conducted on an independent production factor, also a core factor which creates a greater added value. Knowledge society and economy replace the industrial capitalism. The profit of market grows bigger and bigger thanks to the production of successful contents. The law of increasing returns through reproduction and market segmentation overthrows the law of diminishing returns. Generally, knowledge achieves a required logic system by selecting, regulating and producing information. Knowledge has a broader meaning than information. The production and the transmission of information are made by Contents in the knowledge society. Therefore, Information resource management is done by selecting and producing information on the basis of Information Technology. According to the development of Information Technology provides us with innovative changes. The popularization of the Internet has enabled easy circulation, consumption and modification of digitalized copies of work. Digitalized property can be reproduced and diffused all over the world. Then Copyright becomes a concept of knowledge management. Through the knowledge management, we can sell the knowledge, also control the distribution and the way of consumption. This might be a serious problem if the copyright were misused beyond the scope of the limited privileges. Therefore, this study can be discussed on how the copyright misuse can be performed in the knowledge society, and suggest the implementation for copyright misuse.