Regulation of Copyright Translation of Literature on Digital Platforms: A Comparative Study

Abstract

The emergence of digital literature as an object of digital copyright is one of the phenomena of the development of information technology. However, unlimited access to digital containers can make it easier for someone to misuse a work of digital literature against rights. Each country, through its national laws, then tries to provide legal protection for the parties, including the United States through the Digital Copyright Millennium Act (DMCA) and Indonesia through the Copyright Act 2014 (UHC). This research will discuss the regulation of digital literature translation contained in the DMCA and UHC. This research is juridical-normative with the case, statutory, and comparative approaches, whose data collection is done through a literature study. The results of the study concluded that, First, the DMCA has comprehensively regulated the provisions of digital copyright so that it has provided legal certainty. In contrast, the UUHC has not been regulated completely, so it does not provide legal certainty. Second, the DMCA and UUHC are still unable to accommodate the ideal legal protection of digital literature, and Third, the provisions of the DMCA and UUHC also still do not provide legal benefits from the regulation of digital copyright.