Understanding copyright. Intellectual property in the digital age / Bethany Klein; Giles Moss; Lee Edwards.
2015
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Understanding copyright. Intellectual property in the digital age / Bethany Klein; Giles Moss; Lee Edwards.
Published
London : Sage Publications Ltd., 2015.
Call Number
K1485 .K54 2015
ISBN
9781446285831
1446285839
1446285839
Description
vi, 152 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)903803881
Summary
How cultural property is created, governed, protected, circulated and accessed raises serious questions for individuals, activists and governments. Taking a rounded view of the debates and perspectives that have emerged as essential to the struggle over copyright in the digital age, this book: * Looks across a broad range of industries including music, television and film to consider the issues of media power and policy. * Is packed with gripping examples and case studies, including pirate bay, Google books, Metallica v Napster, Aaron Swartz/JSTOR and megaupload.com * Features boxed case studies and guided further reading lists. Edited with authority and insight, this book offers students and scholars of cultural and media industries, new media and social media a comprehensive overview of the contemporary issues surrounding intellectual property.
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How cultural property is created, governed, protected, circulated and accessed raises serious questions for individuals, activists and governments. Taking a rounded view of the debates and perspectives that have emerged as essential to the struggle over copyright in the digital age, this book: * Looks across a broad range of industries including music, television and film to consider the issues of media power and policy. * Is packed with gripping examples and case studies, including pirate bay, Google books, Metallica v Napster, Aaron Swartz/JSTOR and megaupload.com * Features boxed case studies and guided further reading lists. Edited with authority and insight, this book offers students and scholars of cultural and media industries, new media and social media a comprehensive overview of the contemporary issues surrounding intellectual property.
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Table of Contents
About the authors
vii
Acknowledgements
viii
1.
Introduction: Understanding copyright in the digital age
1
Introduction
1
Our approach to understanding copyright
2
How this book is organized
6
2.
A brief history of copyright: Where we are and how we got here
10
Why look back?
10
Key copyright moments and distinctions
10
The digital disruption
17
Contemporary debates in the wake of the digital moment
20
3.
Copyright and the creative economy: How the cultural industries exert influence
24
Understanding the `cultural industries'
24
Managing risk and return in the cultural industries
28
Protecting profits through regulation
30
Campaigning for copyright
33
Lobbying for protection despite unconvincing evidence
38
4.
Technologies and corporations in the middle: How internet intermediaries are drawn into the debate
45
Introduction
45
What are internet intermediaries and why are they important?
46
The war against piracy and file-sharing sites
49
The `turn to private ordering' and the private interests of intermediaries
54
Intermediaries and other important values
58
5.
Creative workers and copyright: How current and future creators benefit from cultural labour
63
Who are the creators?
63
Understanding and rewarding creative work
65
Assumptions versus reality
70
Creator views and voices
72
6.
Consumers, criminals, patrons, pirates: How users connect to copyright
83
Locating users
83
Framing users
84
User practices
88
User perspectives and discourses
92
Where's the consultation?
100
7.
Copyright policy: How policy represents (or fails to represent) different groups
102
Introduction
102
Power and the policymaking process
103
Copyright on the rise
108
Democratizing copyright policy?
115
8.
The future of copyright: How we can learn from the debate
122
Slight return
122
Changing the debate
126
References
129
Index
148