Protection of Intellectual Property in the Context of Electronic Exchanges

In the contemporary digital world, protection of the intellectual property rights which is done based on various kinds of advanced technologies (and to put it more accurately, by information and communication technologies) is one of the most important challenges faced by the contemporary legal systems.In the contemporary technological world, in the context of advances resulted from sciences and technologies, items which are protected by laws concerning protection of intellectual properties may be saved,copied, transferred, and changed in a fraction of a second. This has forced most legal systems to formulate consistent protective rules to protect intellectual property rights in the context of electronic exchanges. New treaties of the World Intellectual Property Organization have been formulated according to the instructions provided by the Parliament and Council of Ministers of the European Union to comply with advances made in the technological field and complete Bern and Paris treaties. The article 62 of the Electronic Commerce Act of Iran has been passed to face this very challenge. The present article aims to study mechanisms invented to protect such rights at domestic and international levels.