基本説明
The analysis fouses on music-file sharing.
Full Description
The explosive growth of the Napster and KaZaA services shows that peer-to-peer file sharing has tremendous appeal in our information society. Nevertheless, current legal and economic practices prevent that these services achieve their full potential. Fighting the War on File Sharing looks into the issue from the perspectives of IT, economics and law and combines the results, pointing out ways how to reduce its escalation and to end the war.
The approach and the solutions reached recognize the influence of outstanding work produced in different disciplines, such as law and information technology (Lessig), political anthropology (Douglas, Geertz, Smits), new institutional economics (Coase, North, Greif) and jurisprudence (Fuller, Bobbitt, Tamanaha).
This book is very important to anyone concerned about how intellectual property law, economics and rhetoric fuel the war on file sharing, and, in general, to everyone interested in the future of the Media Industry on Internet.
Aernout Schmidt and Wim Keuvelaar are both affiliated to elaw@Leiden, Centre for Law in the Information Society at Leiden University. Wilfred Dolfsma is affiliated to the Utrecht School of Economics and to Maastricht University (UNU-MERIT).
This is Volume 14 in the Information Technology and Law (IT&Law) Series
Contents
Part I. Preliminaries: 1. Peer-to-peer problems; 2. The world according to Lessig; 3. Cultural theory; 4. The morality of regulation by architecture; 5. Structure; Part II. The Morality of Regulation by Architecture: 6. IT as a relevant discipline; 7. Asking a question; 8. Regulation by design and deployment; 9. The morality of regulation by architecture; Part III. The Economics of P2P in Music: 10. Introduction; 11. Markets for information goods; 12. Some economics of intellectual property rights; 13. Market standards, business models and future music; 14. Three models assessed; 15. Products and prices: welfare implications; 16. Conclusions; Part IV. INTELLECTUAL Property Rights for Music File Sharing: 17. Preface; 18. Approach; 19. The WIPO treaties; 20. The application of copyright and neighbouring rights; 21. The application of the restriction of private copying; 22. The exercise of copyright and neighbouring rights; 23. The enforcement of copyright and related rights; 24. Digitalrights management; 25. Summary; 26. Postscript; Part V. Understanding the War: 27. Introduction; 28. Framing for multidisciplinary analysis; 29. Institutional analysis of the war on music-file sharing; 30. Recommendations and conclusions.
