Digital Era and Intellectual Property Challenges in Malaysia

Abstract

The world is undergoing a digital transformation where everyday connections are done among people, businesses, data, and processes online. The digitalisation is taking shape and undermining conventional notions about how businesses are structured, how firms interact and how consumers obtain services, information, and goods. Issues of piracy and infringement of IPRs raise concerns surrounding the enforcement of legal measures for (IPRs) protection. The paper seeks to explore the challenges of IPRs protection towards the world of digitalisation. This research utilities secondary data and semi-structured interview with government officials who are directly involved in the IPRs. The findings reveal that the challenges dwell in the issues of the rise of technology which requires advanced technology to cope with it, the lack of enforcement officer to monitor the entry point to the country, the issues of cross border where the agencies need to cooperate with international agencies, lack of awareness among the public, territorial limitation and the piecemeal of the institutional framework. Finally, recommendations on how to improve the enforcement are offered.

Systematic Literature Review: Models of digital transformation in the public sector

“…Source Participation and Empowerment (Missingham, 2001), (Scupola & Zanfei, 2016), (Mattsson, 2016), (Caswell et al, 2017), (Nielsen, 2017), (Fielke et al, 2019), (Issabayeva et al, 2019), (J. P. Roy, 2019), (Rodriguez-Hevía et al, 2020), (C. H. Chen et al, 2020, (Fyshchuk & Evsyukova, 2020), (Agostino et al, 2020), (Mir et al, 2020), (Zerrer & Sept, 2020), (Haase & Buus, 2020), (Menon et al, 2021), (Abdullah et al, 2021), (Pynnönen et al, 2021), (Ponomarenko et al, 2021), (Lageson et al, 2021), (Zakir Hossain, 2021, (Criado & Guevara-Gómez, 2021), (Callanan, 2021), (Kontogeorgis & Varotsis, 2021), (Bhaskara & Bawa, 2021), (Boland et al, 2022), (Tan & Lim, 2022), (T. X. H. Nguyen et al, 2022), (Vasyltsiv et al, 2022), (Zumofen et al, 2022), (Hettiarachchi et al, 2022), (Noor, 2022) Skills and Digital Literacy (Galperin et al, 2013), (Berger et al, 2016), (Palmeiro et al, 2019), (Rowe, 2020), (Ali, 2020), (C. H. Chen et al, 2020), (Špaček et al, 2020), (Zerrer & Sept,...…”

Internal Control Practices of Waqf Management in Yayasan Canselor, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

“…Conversely, focused universities specialize in fields such as technical subjects, science, management, and defense. Eleven universities are included in this category: Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI), Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP), Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM), Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UNISZA), Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM), Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), Universiti Malaysia Kelantan (UMK), and the Universiti Pertahanan Nasional (Fadhilah, Zurina, Mohammad & Nursilah (2017).…”

Zakat: A Bibliometric Analysis

“…This statistic illustrates the extent to which Malaysians have used information and communication technologies. Moreover, Industrial Revolution 4.0 has manifested in a number of wealthy nations as well as emerging economies, including China and India (Abdullah et al, 2017). Consequently, Malaysia has already embraced this change, led by government organisations such as the Malaysian Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) (Abdullah et al, 2017).…”

“…In addition to its other features, the mobile phone offers an abundance of applications. It can be used to communicate and do business through numerous methods (Abdullah et al, 2017). Consequently, it is possible that the percentage of mobile and internet users will surpass 90 percent in the near future.…”

“…As the number of internet users in Malaysia continues to rise, the country is entering an era of more rapid innovation adoption, made possible by the Fourth Industrial Revolution (fourth industrial revolution) (Abdullah et al, 2017). Therefore, technological innovation in the form of mobile or internet banking (in terms of zakat fund collection and distribution) may give greater flexibility, user-friendliness, cost savings, and accessibility from any location and at any time, thereby boosting the process's efficiency (Yahaya & Ahmad, 2019).…”