New article from the Cybernorms Research Group:
https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/publication/4016746
Conceptions of Copyright in a Digital Context. A Comparison between French and
American File-sharers
Larsson, Stefan
(2014) In Lexis - E-Journal in English Lexicology p.89-102
Abstract
What type of metaphors do file-sharers employ to conceptualise copyright in a
digital society? How do they understand property and intellectual property in
this context? How do they conceive the file-sharing community and how does this
‘online piracy’ connect or not connect to law, social norms, copyright
enforcement, and computational traceability?
Given the historical variations in the inherent emphasis on ownership and
attribution in copyright law within an American vis-à-vis a French continental
context, are there, for example, noticeable differences between the American
and the French respondents?
By drawing heavily from conceptual metaphor theory, this article analyses
findings from a large-scale survey (20,000 respondents) on online file-sharing.
The results indicate that copyright is not seen as ‘property’ by the
respondents at all, that a majority of the US and French file-sharers would
prefer to be more anonymous online in order to avoid legal enforcement, and
that almost one out of five already uses such tools.
The results indicate that there is a difference in how the American and the
French file- sharers understand or conceptualise the future of file-sharing and
its relationship to copyright and that the French file-sharers focus more on
the actual artists, while the American file-sharers focus more on the role of
the industry and the government.
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Marcin de Kaminski
PhDc Sociology of Law, University of Lund
Lund University Internet Institute, Cybernorms Research Group
Personal homepage - www.dekaminski.se
Phone#: +46-(0)768 04 51 51
(Sent frpm my iPhbne.)
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