Depuis des semaines, le droit d’auteur et le copyright font la une en raison de plusieurs projets de lois (SOPA/PIPA)1 ou de conventions (ACTA) ultra-répressifs et ayant pour but (entre autres) de lutter contre le téléchargement illégal d’œuvres par Internet ; des réactions des sites comme Google, reddit, Wikipedia ; et de la fermeture par les autorités […]
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Towards an ethical music downloading?
By 3 December 2010 9
In expressing your opinion about digital piracy (in reaction to my post of last week), many of you suggested that the copyright industries should find alternative and creative ways to distribute their content in order to better compete with end-user piracy. Here is a sample of your comments: “Companies should find an alternative like […]
Legal responses to online piracy
By 27 November 2010 35
Yesterday (November 26, 2010), the New York Times published two short articles concerning online piracy of digital goods. The first article (Swedish Court Upholds Convictions in File-Sharing Case) reports that an appeals court in Sweden upheld the copyright convictions of three men behind Pirate Bay, a popular file-sharing site that remains in operation despite attempts to […]
Just released: “Digital Piracy: Theory”
By 28 October 2010 0
In “Digital Piracy: Theory” (click here to download), Paul Belleflamme and Martin Peitz review recent theoretical contributions on digital piracy. The article starts by elaborating on the reasons for intellectual property protection, by reporting a few facts about copyright protection, and by examining reasons to become a digital pirate. Next, it provides an exploration of […]
“Party’s over for US music downloads”: what could cheer up the music industry?
By 27 September 2010 0
Today (27 Sept. 2010), the Financial Times, under the title “Party’s over for US music downloads”, reports that the online sale of music during the first half of 2010 is flat compared to the same period last year (in 2009, downloads were increasing at 13% a year, and in 2008, at 28% a year). The […]