Author(s): Pujiyono, Sufmi Dasco Ahmad
The ease in accessing the internet turns out to be a means of unlawful acts. One of them is piracy of cinematographic through the website. However, the community considers that the cinematographic work that has spread on this internet network has become public domain, so it is legal to be accessed. The government has made regulatory changes, namely the ordinary offense to be a complaint offense which aims to further emphasize the personal nature of copyright, so that if the creator feels violated his right to be able to complain himself. In this paper, we would like to discuss the ownership status of cinematographic works that have been spread across the internet and how the effectiveness of legal protection given to the creators of cinematographic works. The method of legal writing used is normative legal research with through the legislation approach. The results of this study are that ownership of cinematographic works remains with the creator until the protection period expires and the distribution via the internet without the author's permission is illegal. Legal protection given to the creator with the existence of this complaint is still not effective, the biggest factor is due to the passive attitude of the creator and the lack of public awareness about copyright protection. With the proliferation of piracy through websites, special regulations are needed to protect the creators of cinematographic works on online site piracy.