Covid 19 pandemic and online education: An overview of the potential copyright challenges

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic has created some major challenges to educational institutions all over the world. Firstly, it has resulted in the closure of libraries, which in effect means that staff and students cannot get access to physical holdings and they are completely dependent on the library’s on-line collection; secondly these institutions have to shift their teaching and assessment to the on-line mode. These issues also involve interface with intellectual property rights in general and copyright in particular. It would be interesting to highlight some of the pertinent issues regarding classes conducted through an on-line platform and its possible implications from the angle of Indian copyright law