"الحماية المدنية لحق المؤلف في اطار البيئة الرقمية "دراسة تحليلية في القانون العراقي
The extensive technological developments have imposed a new reality to be dealt with particularly in the fields of modern communications, like the Internet. According and encounter then legally rights of individuals have been in fringed more particularly, the right of authors in the Framework of the Digital Environment. As it is known that electronic publishing has achieved many advantages as the easiness in publishing and the fast spread around the world decreasing of the value of publishing costs when compared with the traditional publishing. In spite of that, the electronic publishing has contributed to decreasing the legal protection granted for the authors in the framework digital environment due to the emergence of technical measures that nullify all the means of protecting author’s literature. For this reason, it is necessary to make a study concerned with evaluating the civil protection for the published literature in the framework of the digital environment, in the law of protection the right of Iraqi author through an analytical study which aims at investigating: the effectiveness of the machinery taken in order to protect the right of the Iraqi authors by dealing with the protection, on the one hand, and the civil means available to protect the published literature in the digital environment, on the other.