This paper points out the consequences of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on copyrights and the actors in the information process, based on the current copyright regulations in Brazil, questioning how these norms protect the intellectual production in the digital context and up to what extent there is legitimacy and legal support in making available digitalized copies of protected books, such as in the Google Book Search case. The conclusion is that today the law does not properly protect the rights of authors and readers, as it is focused in the protection of private commercial interests, and that civil society finds ways to enlarge the communicative flow as a result of the easy access to reproduction and distribution of copies of intellectual work enabled by the ICTs.
Information and communication technologies; Copyrights
