Filesharing Copyrights Intellectual Property
Filesharing Copyrights Intellectual Property
Filesharing here refers to making files available for general download over the Internet, generally over peer-to-peer (P2P) networks like Gnutella or Napster before it was reconstructed as a music store.
Top: Society: Issues: Intellectual Property: Copyrights: Filesharing
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File-Sharing Getting Bad Rap? - "A controversial new study by economists at Harvard and the University of North Carolina has found that file-sharing is not the cause of declining CD sales." [Rolling Stone]
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The Effect of P2P File-sharing Depends on Popularity - The hits at the top of the charts lose sales, but the niche artists further down the popularity curve actually benefit from file-trading, according to a Harvard paper on the economics of filesharing. [The Long Tail]
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LA Times: File 'sharing' or 'stealing'? - Jon Healey writes about the semantic debate over whether copyright infringement is theft, in response to an Op-Ed submission that called for file sharing to be decriminalized.
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MusicUnited.org - Alliance of various music industry organizations advocating against distributing copyrighted music.
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'Music Is Not a Loaf of Bread' - Interview with Wilco, a band that dropped its label and file shared its album, achieving commercial success and Grammy nominations. [Wired]
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Who Owns Culture? - Streaming audio and video of a discussion of digital filesharing, part of a library series called "Live From the NYPL."
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Joel Fights Back - The story and defense of Joel Tenenbaum who has been accused by the recording industry of sharing seven songs on a P2P network. Includes a repository of the court filings related to the case.
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Copying Isn't Cool - "File sharing isn't just a problem for the music industry. It's a threat to anyone who depends upon intellectual property for a living." By Scott Matthews. [Salon]
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Yo Ho Ho – Buccanerds Give Studios a Broadside - Profile of BitTorrent tracking site The Pirate Bay and file-sharing evangelism. [Times Online]
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File Sharing: A Debate - Arguments for and against filesharing, with a focus on trading MP3s.
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The Pirate's Dilemma - A blog about the relationship between piracy, youth culture, pop culture and innovation. Information on the book The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Re-invented Capitalism and author and speaker Matt Mason.
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