A Study on the Challenges Related to Intellectual Property Rights in Digital Artworks

This study explores the issues in intellectual property rights in the landscape of digital arts through tracing the shift in protecting and maintaining digital art. It intends to trace the shift in protecting and maintaining digital arts. It utilizes a qualitative research design through a literature data collection of existing studies and other resources available online. In understanding the role of intellectual property rights in digital arts, it emphasizes the problem of commodification of original artworks. Accordingly, it reviews existing intellectual property right laws and policies, how the rights shifted along with the digitization of traditional arts, and the challenges and strategies in preserving the rights over digital arts. It concludes that more strategies and policies must be taken to further protect and give proper recognition to the creators and artists. In this regard, it suggests digital artworks should be verified authentic through the block-chain, such as NFTs.