Source: https://fcforum.net/en/sustainable-models-for-creativity/bibliography/
Timestamp: 2019-04-25 14:28:32+00:00

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The report, published by the economy research center FEDEA, harshly criticizes the Government‚Äôs plans to clamp down on users offile-sharing networks. The authors claim that the current proposals are a useless and an ineffective way to defend artists because they cling to an old model that has proven ineffective in fighting piracy.
Vuze analyzes it‚Äôs consumers: Heavy movie fans, Avid online video buffs (at the expense of “live” TV), trailblazing tech consumers, ultra connected online influencers and people uniquely attracted to science fiction and animation content.
A survey among British people from 14 to 24 years old shows that music remains the most valued form of entertainment. Young people have an inherent sense of what copyright is, but choose to ignore it – the vast majority of respondents knew that sharing copyrighted content is not legal, yet continue to do so.
The short-run and long-run effects of copyright may differ substantially. In the short run, copyright benefits rights holders at the expense of users. In the long run, the benefits associated with any additional supply due to copyright protection may more than offset the access costs of users so that copyright may offer a net welfare improvement for all stakeholders (i.e. a Pareto improvement). This long-run perspective provides no comprehensive, general case for copyright, however. Because users include follow-up creators, copyright is not unequivocally beneficial to creators and excessive copyright protection could even diminish the supply of copyright works. Even if one were to disregard consumer interests – for example in some natural rights perspectives – an efficient copyright system still has to strike a balance between divergent interests.
A survey promoted by industry groups in the US, including Microsoft, analysing the economic usefulness of ‚Äòfair use‚Äô.
Howard Rheingold has been called the First Citizen of the Internet. In this book he tours the “virtual community” of online networking. He describes a community that is as real and as much a mixed bag as any physical community‚Äîone where people talk, argue, seek information, organize politically, fall in love, and dupe others.
Stalder‚Äôs essay is one of 30 texts compiled by the editors. It explores different approaches to the formation of a “digital commons” against the forces of corporate privatization.
The emergence of productions systems – particularly those that produce knowledge, but also products and services — based on large communities of distributed individuals who rely on digital collaboration platforms (defined as P2P systems) has challenged the basic principles of the economy. This article analyzes some of these models and introduces the principle theories that underline them.
This study analyses different notions of culture that have been handled in cultural policy, and how it has been building up an economic sense through the ‚ÄòCultural Industries‚Äô and ‚ÄòCreative Industries‚Äô. The first part focuses on understanding how neoliberal thinking and the paradigm of the creative industries have affected government policy. Through the case study of the Brazilian model, we analyze different ways of understanding cultural policy that is not solely defined by economic interests, and concludes with the possibility of replacing the discourse surrounding the ‚ÄòCreative Industries‚Äô with a new coinage that takes the “Business of the commons” as an engine of a new paradigm that canweave more balanced relations between economy, culture and society.
A declaration that includes practical examples. It has been signed by organisations such as the International Music Managers‚Äô Forum (IMMF) and The Computer and Communications Industry Association, which Microsoft is also a member of. It asks Brussels for more future vision in relation to copyright legislation and a greater commitment to new economic models and remuneration for the creative community.
Put in perspective: a typical advance for a book of this kind is $5,000. Odds are, I wouldn‚Äôt see royalties at all. So right now I‚Äôm $4600 ahead of where I would have been under the traditional “pay first” model. Also, under this system, I have a lot more readers than your typical book aimed at this market. Canadian best-sellers ship 5,000 copies. I‚Äôve already done that, fifty times over.
This article provide the public with two possible approaches that may be taken to get the problem solved. The approaches are called “negative” and “positive” spillovers, with the first assessing a penalty, which size would depend on the piracy level defined at a certain ISP‚Äôs network, while the second one would demand ISPs to voluntarily pay a fee in exchange for the right to transmit copyrighted content on their networks legally.
The legal battles surrounding peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing are a losing proposition for everyone. The record labels continue to face sliding sales, while the tens of millions of American file sharers‚ÄîAmerican music fans‚Äîare made to feel like criminals. Every day the collateral damage mounts‚Äîprivacy at risk, innovation stymied, economic growth suppressed, and random unlucky individuals singled out for lawsuits by the recording industry. In the meantime, the lawsuits against music fans have not put a penny into the pockets of artists.
The stated purpose of the tax is to “compensate” musicians for copying done by individuals using DATs. However, 57 percent of the funds collected would go to record companies and music publishers‚Äîleaving less than half to the people who participate in the creative process. Most of these remaining funds would go to musical superstars, and thus would do little to encourage musical creativity. Meanwhile, DAT users would be unable to make full use of the power of DAT technology.
In 2009, four out of ten viewers preferred to watch a Spanish film rather than a foreigner one. This contradicts the minister of Culture, Gonzalez Sinde, who blamed the crisis affecting national cinema partly on ‚Äòpiracy‚Äô on the Internet.
TorrentWatch is a virtual snapshot of the world’s P2P file sharing community that illustrates the ratio of up-loaders (seeders) to down-loaders (leechers) of globally-popular movies by simultaneously comparing the users‚Äô physical locations by location and during a standardized 24 hour period of time.
Aicholzer, G. & Burkert H. (2004). Public Sector Information in the Digital Age. Between Markets, Public Management and Citizen‚Äôs Right. Celtenham, Edward Elgar Publishing.
Derclaye E. (2008). Does the Directive on the Re-use of Public Sector Information affect the State‚Äôs database sui-generis right ? In: Gaster J., Schweighofer E. & Sint P. Knowledge Rights – Legal, societal and related technological aspects. Austrian Computer Society.
The Database Directive, which created a new database sui generis right and harmonised the copyright provisions for databases, does not exclude “state databases” from protection. The question is whether the state should benefit from such intellectual property protection. De lege ferenda, it has been advocated that neither copyright nor sui generis right should protect such databases for several reasons, a major one being that they are financed by taxpayer‚Äôs money. Several solutions exist de lege lata to try and curtail this negative aspect of the Database Directive as applicable to “state databases” (mainly the human right to information and competition law). One solution, specific to the situation of the state, has not been discussed in depth yet. It is provided by the Public Sector Information (PSI) Directive which grants the possibility for anyone to re-use public sector information (and therefore data from state databases) free of charge or at minimal cost, even for commercial purposes. Therefore, even if the state could claim sui generis right on some of its databases, the PSI Directive appears to reduce this right quite substantially. The paper examines in detail whether the PSI Directive does actually do so and analyses some national implementation laws which further highlight its ineffectiveness in curtailing the sui generis right in state databases. It then proposes solutions to remedy this problem.
The paper gives an overview of the economics of ‚Äòpublic sector information‚Äô (PSI) focusing on the question of funding and regulatory structure. That is: who should pay to maintain public sector information and what regulatory structure should be put in place to support this.
Towards a core common infrastructure”, mars 2001, White Paper for the Brennan Center for Justice.

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