Introduction

The proliferation of new technologies has facilitated the distribution, reproduction, and manipulation of intellectual creations. One such innovation, the World Wide Web, is having a tremendous impact on our understandings and practices of intellectual property. Through the exploration of intellectual property principles, this paper will focus on the current issues of World Wide Web sites as digital property. Intellectual property concerns are ubiquitous on the World Wide Web; these concerns are prevalent in both print and online literature. Through a review of this literature, concerns surrounding the construction, content, and copyright protection of World Wide Web sites will be discussed and interpreted in the context of intellectual property.