Abstract:



Copyright is one of the most common types of literary and artistic property rights that is recognized in international conventions and domestic legal documents. Violation of this right is considered scientific and literary plagiarism. In the domestic legal system, this right is guaranteed in the Law for the Protection of Authors' Rights, law of combating scientific fraud, draft of comprehensive bill of intellectual property rights, and draft of protection of private data in cyberspace. In international conventions, the oldest document in this field is the Berne Convention, which has been revised several times. In addition, the TRIPS Agreement of the World Trade Organization, and the Nice Agreement have rules guaranteeing the protection of copyright, and they are against scientific plagiarism. There are significant differences between the international conventions system and the Iran’s legal system in the field of copyright protection and plagiarism which are included: first, in relation to copyright the principle of national behavior and the principle of the full state have not been respected in Iran, and between Iranian authors and foreign authors, a kind of discriminatory view has been formed. Meanwhile, one Berne Convention as the main related international convention emphasis on this issue. Second, despite the emphasis of international conventions, in the field of copyright violations, Differential procedure is not observed in Iran's legal system.