The current copyright law and its exceptions cannot effectively protect the exclusive
rights and economic interests of copyright owners because of three factors: (1) the obscurity
and ambiguity of the educational exceptions under the Thai CA 1994; (2) the current approach
of the Thai Court to the exceptions has weakened the copyright protection regime in the
education sector; and (3) the absence of a Copyright Collecting Society (CCS) in the education
sector makes it more difficult for users to obtain a licence for the use of copyrighted works.
These three factors not only make copyright protection and its exceptions ineffective in
safeguarding the economic interests of copyright owners, but also undermine the goal of
copyright law, which is to encourage greater creativity.