C/L/50. Critically examine whether the current copyright laws provide adequate protection for multimedia and audiovisual works.

This is a critical examination of the copyright law; the work starts by defining both terms 'multimedia' and 'audiovisual', it then turns to considering some legal provisions and UK and under EU law. The last part of the essay examines infringement of copyright law, through piracy and whether such crime will possible to be eliminated in relation to digital works. The work concludes that there is no adequate protection under the existing copyright law for the multimedia and audiovisual works as well as it is unknown whether any changes would be able to make the position better.