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Malczyk, Anna. "Games, copyright, piracy : South African gamers' perspectives." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14315.
Full textThis thesis examines video games, copyright law and gamers' attitudes to copyright infringement, with particular reference to South Africa. The work provides an overview of the debates about copyright law and digital media, and offers an analysis of attitudes expressed by South African gamers about copyright infringement, popularly termed 'piracy'. The thesis reveals that, while about 70% of the gamers in this study share content illegally, they express complex and varying motivations for doing so, and have various and conflicting means of understanding the supposed illegality of the act. Some of the issues raised by participants in this study relate to contested perspectives on Digital Rights Management (DRM). In this work, I argue that DRM erodes civil liberties and does not necessarily extend the interests of gaming corporations. In this regard, the thesis explores alternative strategies to the restrictive approaches adopted by advocates of DRM as well as prohibitive copyright laws and multilateral agreements on intellectual property. In essence, this work intends to establish middle ground between gamers, who place a high premium on usability and affordability of gaming products, and the gaming corporations, who are interested in extending market share as well as protecting what they deem to be their intellectual property.
Chen, Ze Shang. "Piracy in China." Thesis, University of Macau, 2011. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2488019.
Full textDaramaras, Konstantinos I. "Copyright and challenges to copyright : the case of 'piracy' and 'private copying'." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/34585.
Full textKwan, Samuel Shu Kin. "End-user digital piracy : contingency framework, affective determinants and response distortion /." View abstract or full-text, 2007. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?ISMT%202007%20KWAN.
Full textGunter, Whitney D. "Piracy of the new millennium an application of criminological theories to digital piracy /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 184 p, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1885755761&sid=4&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textRimmer, Matthew Rhys. "The pirate bazaar the social life of copyright law." View electronic text, 2001. http://eprints.anu.edu.au/documents/disk0/00/00/08/14/index.html.
Full textShipman, Lori-Lin. "The movie piracy industry in China and its relationship with intellectual property rights." online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 2007. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?1446018.
Full textMajek, Dee. "Big Content's Big Blunders : Anti-piracy measures in the entertainment and copyright industries." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-107225.
Full textVillazon, Cira H. "Software piracy an empirical study of influencing factors /." Full text available online (restricted access), 2004. http://images.lib.monash.edu.au/ts/theses/Villazon.pdf.
Full textBak, Brandon T. "Preventing Digital Piracy: A Change in the Business Model." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/507.
Full textCheung, Kwok-fu. "A study of copyright protection policy and the effectiveness of anti-piracy law enforcement in Hong Kong." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1989. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31975720.
Full textSo, Siu-fan Sylvia, and 蘇少芬. "Computer ethics: youth attitude and behavior in digital piracy." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29960551.
Full textWang, Jie. "Moral Judgment and Digital Piracy: Predicting Attitudes, Intention, and Behavior Regarding Digital Piracy Using a Modified Version of the Defining Issues Test." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc822761/.
Full textCheung, Kwok-fu, and 張國富. "A study of copyright protection policy and the effectiveness of anti-piracy law enforcement in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1989. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31975720.
Full textAnderson, Eric. "Pimps and Ferrets: Copyright and Culture in the United States, 1831-1891." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1193529137.
Full textVijayakumar, Prasad. "Thou shalt not steal, an analysis of the GATT TRIPS copyright provisions and software piracy in India." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ63383.pdf.
Full textLövgren, Alexander. "DRM - utveckling, konflikter och framtid : konsumenters reaktioner på och företags användande av DRM." Thesis, Högskolan på Gotland, Institutionen för speldesign, teknik och lärande, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-207699.
Full textLai, Ka-ying, and 黎家盈. "Profiling internet pirates." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B46606920.
Full textPodgornaia, Kseniia. "Ruská a česká specifika ochrany autorského práva v oblasti audiovize." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-204968.
Full textAndersson, Jonas. "Peer-to-peer-based file-sharing beyond the dichotomy of 'downloading is theft' vs. 'information wants to be free': how Swedish file-sharers motivate their action." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.523114.
Full textJacobsson, Tony. "Piratkopiering: en ekonomisk-teoretisk granskning av marknaden för dataspel." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Management and Economics, 2000. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-716.
Full textThis essay analyzes the market for entertainment software by identifying and explain the products typical properties, in addition i clarifies the behavior of consumers and producers. One of the most important property related to software is the ease with which it can be reproduced. When such reproduction is done illicit it´s called piracy. The software industry often claims that piracy leads to big losses for the companies as well as in welfare, the essay clarifies that this doesn´t has to be the case. On the contrary the possibility to cheap production and distribution may lead to an increased welfare. The paper questions todays copyright law and suggests that a different legislation would lead to an increase in welfare.
Jinkerson, Jeremy. "DOES MUSIC PIRACY INFLUENCE PURCHASE INTENTION?: ADAPTING AJZEN'S THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOR MODEL." MSSTATE, 2008. http://sun.library.msstate.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-06202008-234405/.
Full textPang, Sam I. "The rhythm of everyday life : a study on the impact of illegal music downloading and the life of adult women in Macau." Thesis, University of Macau, 2006. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b1874193.
Full textKubešová, Eliška. "Aktuální právní otázky využití a zneužití záznamů hudebního díla." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-197997.
Full textСавицька, І. В., Надія Володимирівна Глущенко, Надежда Владимировна Глущенко, and Nadiia Volodymyrivna Hlushchenko. "Піратство у медіа-галузі в Україні." Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2019. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/78896.
Full textBattista, Martina <1989>. "Into the Wired: Digital Freedom or Piracy? The ECJ's "Nintendo v. PC Box" Case Law as an Emblematic Example of Copyright Contradictions in the Information Society." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/5546.
Full textBerg, Suzanne Valerie Loen. "Knowledge, Cultural Production, and Construction of the Law: An Ideographic Rhetorical Criticism of Copyright." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1383594033.
Full textGemrik, Sevil Aytemiz Levent. "Fikri mülkiyet hakları bağlamında korsan yayıncılığın ekonomi politiği /." Isparta : SDÜ Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2008. http://tez.sdu.edu.tr/Tezler/TS00667.pdf.
Full textLatson, Christopher Craig. "Contemporary Pirates: An Examination of the Perceptions and Attitudes Toward the Technology, Progression, and Battles that Surround Modern Day Music Piracy in Colleges and Universities." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2004. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4595/.
Full textRosén, Jimmy. "Hyperdistribution and the future of copyright economics : A study of the contemporary Nordic Gaming industry." Thesis, Linköping University, Culture, Society and Media Production, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-18648.
Full textThis interdisciplinary study shows that because of the changing demands from consumer caused by the growing influence of the internet and file-sharing the Nordic Gaming industry is going through an economic evolution. This result was derived by using qualitative questionnaires directed towards Gaming industry decision makers in the Nordic region combined with critical discourse analysis based on the methodology of Norman Fairclough, using theories of different characters to understand the field.
In this thesis the case of the Nordic Gaming industry is used to assert that because of changing demands of consumers and an ever growing piracy movement, societies are evolving into transitional economies where it is increasingly harder to sell products consisting of pure information.
Fisk, Nathan W. "Social learning theory as a model for illegitimate peer-to-peer use and the effects of implementing a legal music downloading service on peer-to-peer music piracy /." Online version of thesis, 2006. https://ritdml.rit.edu/dspace/handle/1850/2737.
Full textPaula, Fernando Shimidt de. "Dos crimes de violação de direitos de autor." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2009. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/8800.
Full textThe aim of this paper is to expose the evolution of the penal treatment that is given to the violation of the copyright in Brazil. Considering some historical events emphasizing Brazilian penal legislation since the Portuguese Ordinations , an effort was made to show how the harmful practices against the intellectual property occurred, the way society has treated them and how the social and political life in Brazil was also affected. Since the increase given by Queen Anne of England in 1710 until the present period it is possible to notice that from the confiscation to the penalty prison, the counterfeiters deserve more attention from the legislators, due to the human development and the international conventions about this issue, where Brazil takes part of. Concerning some items on authorial right issues, (it is important to consider that authorial does not mean author s right in this case) about counterfeits and the public dominion and also several doctrine manifestations about law of these institutes and its crimes, going through the analyses of the constitutional and infra-constitutional treatment of the subject, emphasizing the article 184 of the Penal Code, a basic rule about the issue and the aim of this study, considering what the Laws number 9.279/96 and 9.609/98 say about violation of trade mark and invention rights, as well as computer programs. Finally, a connection was made between piracy - a commercial form of counterfeit and the economical activities of crime organization, and also some efficient forms of fighting against this modality of crime, bringing some statistics up
Este trabalho tem por objetivo expor a evolução no tempo do tratamento penal dado às violações aos direitos de autor no país. Através de um breve escorço histórico, relatando eventos desde a Antiguidade, com ênfase para a legislação penal brasileira a partir das Ordenações Portuguesas, procurou-se apresentar de que forma as práticas nocivas à propriedade intelectual acontecem e, com mais destaque, como foram tratadas pela sociedade e influenciaram a vida político-social do Brasil. Do incremento dado pela Rainha Ana da Inglaterra em 1710 até os dias atuais observa-se que, dos confiscos às penas de reclusão, os contrafatores vêm merecendo atenção cada vez maior dos legisladores, devido ao desenvolvimento humano e as convenções internacionais sobre o tema, das quais a Nação é signatária. Expostos alguns conceitos de direito autoral, distinguindo-o do direito de autor, sobre o plagiato e o domínio público e, também, reveladas várias manifestações doutrinárias acerca da natureza jurídica desses institutos e dos crimes respectivos, passou-se à análise do tratamento constitucional e depois do tratamento infra-constitucional da matéria, com ênfase para o disposto no artigo 184 do Código Penal, norma básica sobre o assunto e foco deste trabalho, sem se olvidar do que consta nas Leis nºs 9.279/96 e 9.609/98, no que tange aos crimes de violação aos direitos sobre marca e invenção, bem como dos direitos sobre os programas de computador, respectivamente. Por fim, foi exposta uma correlação entre a pirataria - forma comercial de contrafação - e as atividades econômicas das organizações criminosas, bem como citadas algumas maneiras encontradas de combate eficiente a essa modalidade delituosa, com a apresentação de algumas estatísticas
Bazarsky, Jason. "The effect of illegal music downloading and iTunes Store on CD collection size." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/1569.
Full textSmith, Virgínia Luna. "Plágio, pirataria, fair use e a (des)criminalização da violação de direito autoral." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2012. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/6074.
Full textThe aim of this doctoral thesis is to instigate the debate on the criminalization of the most usual forms of copyright violation, considering the standoff between the defenders of a stricter legislation to fight piracy and plagiarism and the liberals who believe in the legitimate use of intellectual creations. The impacts of technological improvements on the market, society, communication and on the body of laws will be examined using the Tridimensional Theory of Law, developed by Miguel Reale, to assess to which extent the current facts that would consist in violation of intellectual property are mutually entangled with the penal norms that impose sanctions against violating behaviors and the values present in a society that is becoming more global, connected and computerized every day
Este trabalho tem por objetivo instigar o debate acerca da criminalização das mais usuais formas de violação ao direito autoral, considerando o impasse que se verifica entre os defensores de uma legislação de combate mais rígida ao plágio e à pirataria, e os liberais que sustentam o uso justo das criações intelectuais. Os impactos promovidos pelos avanços tecnológicos no mercado, na sociedade, na comunicação e no ordenamento jurídico serão examinados utilizando como matriz teórica a Teoria Tridimensional do Direito, desenvolvida por Miguel Reale, para avaliar em que medida se implicam mutuamente os fatos atuais que consistiriam em violação aos direitos de autor, as normas penais que impõem sanções para as condutas violadoras, e os valores presentes em uma sociedade a cada dia mais globalizada, conectada e informatizada
Filho, Rubens Araujo Menezes de Souza. "Os donos das ideias: história e conflitos do direito autoral, do copyright e das patentes na crise contemporânea do capital: da rodada Uruguai (1986) aos partidos piratas (2006)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-12122014-184858/.
Full textThrough the historical analysis of the \"intellectual property\", in particular patents, copyright and authors rights, this thesis deals with the crisis of contemporary capitalism, and analyzes the covert increasing trend of states, that with the use of computer technology and the intensification of laws, become increasingly authoritarian, eroding civil rights and liberties secured by populations long ago. To reach this objective the history of computers, the Internet, the Free Software Movement, the Pirate Parties, the Free Software movement in Brazil, the intellectual property laws in the Western world and the globalization of trade and finance are reconstituted
Lundström, Justus, Jonas Widriksson, and Viktor Zaunders. "Changes in media consumption and file sharing : The impact of legislation and new digital media services." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Business Informatics, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-12534.
Full textIn this study we investigate how the attitude and behaviour concerning illegal file shar-ing have changed among the young population in Sweden. The study will analyze the impact of the IPRED law that was introduced in April 2008 and new digital media ser-vices that have emerged in the last couple of years. It is also evaluated which of these have had the most impact on the attitude and behaviour of the selected population.
The main part of our research consists of a quantitative survey handed out to a sample population among high school students (ages 16-20) in Jönköping, Sweden. This pri-mary data is later compared to secondary data from a similar study that was done on the same demographics two years prior to this research in order to measure the change in behaviour and attitude. The previous study was conducted prior to the IPRED law im-plementation by one of the authors. We also used prior research within this subject and related fields to further understand and interpret our data.
What we have discovered through our research is that there has been a decrease in ille-gal file sharing, especially when considering music, however this decrease is much more an effect of the adopting of new media services then it can be attributed to the IPRED law. Furthermore, the attitudes towards file sharing have remained unchanged and a large number of young adults do not feel that file sharing should be illegal.
It is also concluded that good legal alternatives to file sharing have a large market po-tential if these services can fulfil consumers demand on availability and price. Addition-ally we have found that good legal alternatives are important if the public is to refrain from returning to their old file sharing habits once the initial scare from new legislation has worn off.
Björk, Moa-Lisa. "Fel eller rätt med upphovsrätt : En kritisk diskursanalys av den svenska debatten om upphovsrätten." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-352852.
Full textRimmer, Matthew. "The Pirate Bazaar: The Social Life of Copyright Law." Thesis, The Faculty of Law, The University of New South Wales, 2001. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/86581/1/fulltext.pdf.
Full textSteedman, Sam, and sam steedman@gmail com. "Change and Growth of Australian Music Value Chains." RMIT University. Architecture and Design, 2009. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20091029.161558.
Full textLabská, Julie. "Vliv technologií na hudební průmysl z hlediska distribuce hudby." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-162616.
Full textTroilo, Maurizio. "Web 2.0, contenuti aperti e produzione tra pari: analisi economica delle possibili sinergie." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2010. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/1201/.
Full textEbadi, Solmaz, and Mirja Johansson. "Music File Sharing : Genius Technology or Copyright Infringement?" Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Commercial Law, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-7598.
Full textToday’s technology of music file sharing in peer-to-peer networks is genius. Peer-to-peer are networks composed of several computers enabling files to be shared among users. A substantial part of the files shared constitute unlawful copies; uploading and downloading of such files infringes copyright legislation. File sharing through peer-to-peer networks is therefore both a genius technology and a copyright infringement.
Peer-to-peer technology has been subject to heavy debate in media, both nationally and internationally. The issue of illegal downloads of music is an international dilemma since music is a global commodity. Sweden has been accused of being file sharers’ haven by organisations such as the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Internet access and broadband capacity is very high in Sweden, which is a reason why many Swedes engage in file sharing. The Swedish company, The Pirate Bay, is the creator of one of the most popular file sharing websites in the world, using the BitTorrent application. The website offers free downloading of inter alia music, films and software. Like most peer-to-peer networks the Pirate Bay website includes copyrighted material, which often is published without the consent of copyright holders. As a result The Pirate Bay is facing a lawsuit on behalf of numerous organisations and companies in the music and film industry.
The Pirate Bay is accused of contributory infringement and of preparation to commit a copyright infringement according to the Swedish Copyright Act (SwCA). Contrary to the American copyright legislation, the SwCA does not contain any explicit provisions regarding contributory infringement. The SwCA refers to the Swedish Criminal Code, which states that preparation to copyright infringement and contributing to such infringement is illegal and punishable. There is currently a lack of Swedish case law regarding copyright infringement and there are no cases concerning contributory infringement. One reason is that the field of law is constantly changing; the copyright legislation is adjusted to the technological developments. The lack of case law causes unpredictability of the SwCA, which may be harmful to the rule of law. International organisations, such as the RIAA, consider the SwCA to be somewhat ineffective and that it needs to be amended in order to uphold the fundamental purpose of copyright.
Copyright is a partly harmonised area of law from a global perspective. However, since the Internet and file sharing through peer-to-peer networks is an international phenomenon, copyright legislation needs further harmonisation internationally. At the time there is an ongoing process of implementing the European Union (EU) Enforcement Directive into the SwCA, which grants greater rights to copyright holders. The Directive contains provisions that simplify the process of taking action against an alleged infringer, which may in the long run increase the amount of case law in Sweden. At the same time the implementation of the Enforcement Directive has been criticised as being too far reaching and intruding people’s privacy.
File sharing through peer-to-peer networks benefits consumers by offering easy access to a wide range of music for a low cost, at the same time enabling artists to reach out to a larger audience. Consumers are vital for the music industry, since they purchase the music. However, the fundamental aim of copyright is to reward copyright holders and function as an incentive to encourage creativity. Consequently, without economic rights the incentive to create is forfeit and music production might decrease. Even if the justification of copyright is primarily to protect creators of a work, it is also essential to emphasise the consumer aspect. Therefore it is of importance to balance the interests of all parties involved.
In order to uphold the purpose of copyright and interests of the general public, it is necessary to promote and develop more legal file sharing alternatives. Music in digital formats has to some extent replaced the traditional Compact Disc (CD) format. Therefore the music industry must cooperate with among others Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in order to embrace the digital developments of music and offer better solutions to consumers. Simultaneously, there is a lack of knowledge of copyright among the Swedish population, which is why more education is required. In conclusion, advertisement and education could decrease illegal file sharing and enhance all the parties’ interests.
Dagens fildelningsteknologi i peer-to-peer nätverk är genial. Peer-to-peer är nätverk bestående av flera sammankopplade datorer som möjliggör fildelning mellan användare. En betydande mängd av de delade filerna utgör dock olagliga kopior; uppladdning och nedladdning av sådana filer bryter mot upphovsrättslagstiftningen. Fildelning genom peer-to-peer nätverk är därför både genial teknologi och upphovsrättsintrång.
Peer-to-peer teknologin har väckt stor debatt i media, både nationellt och internationellt. Frågan kring illegal nedladdning av musik är ett internationellt dilemma eftersom musik är en global handelsvara. Sverige har kritiserats av organisationer som Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) för att vara en frizon för fildelare. Tillgången till internet och bredband är väldigt hög i Sverige, vilket är en anledning till varför många svenskar fildelar. Det svenska företaget The Pirate Bay som använder sig av BitTorrent protokollet, är skapare till en av världens populäraste fildelningssajter. Webbsidan erbjuder gratis nedladdning av bland annat musik, film och programvara. I likhet med de flesta peer-to-peer nätverk innehåller The Pirate Bay’s hemsida upphovsrättsskyddat material som ofta har blivit tillgängliggjort utan upphovsrättshavarens medgivande. Till följd av detta har ett flertal organisationer och företag inom musik- och filmindustrin ingett en stämningsansökan mot The Pirate Bay.
The Pirate Bay är åtalade för medhjälp och förberedelse till brott mot upphovsrättslagen. I motsats till den amerikanska lagen om upphovsrätt innehåller inte den svenska upphovsrättslagen några uttryckliga bestämmelser rörande medhjälp till brott mot upphovsrätt. Upphovsrättslagen hänvisar istället till brottsbalken som stadgar att förberedelse och medverkan till brott är olagligt och straffbart. I dagsläget finns endast ett fåtal svenska rättsfall angående upphovsrättsintrång men inga fall kring medhjälp till upphovsrättsintrång. En bidragande faktor kan vara att rättsområdet ständigt ändras; upphovsrättslagstiftningen anpassas kontinuerligt till den tekniska utvecklingen. Bristen på svenska rättsfall leder till att upphovsrättslagens tillämpning blir oförutsägbar, vilket kan vara skadligt för rättsäkerheten. Internationella organisationer som exempelvis RIAA anser att den svenska upphovsrättslagen är ineffektiv och att ändringar behöver göras för att upprätthålla upphovsrättens grundläggande syfte.
Upphovsrätten är till viss del en harmoniserad lagstiftning ur ett globalt perspektiv. Eftersom internet och fildelning genom peer-to-peer nätverk är ett internationellt fenomen behöver upphovsrättslagen ytterligare harmonisering på ett internationellt plan. I dagsläget pågår en implementering av Europeiska Unionens (EU:s) sanktionsdirektiv som tillerkänner större rättigheter till upphovsrättshavare. Direktivet innehåller bestämmelser som förenklar möjligheten för rättighetshavare att vidta åtgärder mot personer som begår upphovsrättsintrång, vilket på sikt kan komma att bidra till en ökad mängd rättsfall. Sanktionsdirektivet har samtidigt kritiserats för att vara alltför långtgående och inskränker människors rätt till privatliv.
Fildelning genom peer-to-peer nätverk är förmånligt för konsumenter genom att utbudet av musik är stort, lättillgängligt och till en låg kostnad; samtidigt ger nätverken artister möjligheten att nå ut till en bredare publik. Konsumenter är nödvändiga för musikindustrin eftersom de inhandlar musiken. Dock är det viktigt att upprätthålla det fundamentala syftet med upphovsrätt, vilket är att ersätta upphovsrättshavaren för sitt verk och fungera som ett incitament till att stimulera skapade. Utan de ekonomiska rättigheterna skulle uppmuntran att skapa nya alster gå förlorad, och musikproduktionen skulle minska. Trots att upphovsrätten rättfärdigas genom att skydda rättighetshavare så är det även angeläget att understryka värdet av konsumenterna. Det är därför av stor vikt att balansera samtliga parters intressen.
Det är nödvändigt att marknadsföra och utveckla fler lagliga fildelningsalternativ för att upprätthålla upphovsrättens syfte och samhällets intresse. Digital musik har till viss del ersatt det traditionella Compact Disc (CD) formatet. Musikindustrin måste därför samarbeta med bland annat internetleverantörer för att ta till sig den digitala utvecklingen av musik och erbjuda bättre lösningar till konsumenter. För närvarade har den svenska befolkningen otillräckliga kunskaper inom upphovsrätt, varför mer utbildning behövs. Avslutningsvis, skulle marknadsföring och utbildning kunna bidra till en minskning av den illegala fildelningen och gynna alla parters intressen.
Salami, Shahnaz. "Enjeux et perspectives de la politique du droit d'auteur en Iran à l'heure de la globalisation et à la lumière du droit français et international : exemple du cinéma." Thesis, Lyon, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LYSE2112.
Full textThe recognition of copyright in Iran encounters significant difficulties in globalization times when international standardization of copyright clashes with national issues : such is the assumption that we will endeavor to check in the first part of our thesis. First, a study of copyright in Iran will show that the Iranian cultural policy concerning literary and artistic property is inspired by the French approach to copyright. Secondly, an analysis of international positive law will see cultural, political and economic issues that explain why the Iranian legislator tends to strike a balance between the Iranian distinctiveness and international positive law through a series of reforms. Finally, this study will illustrate the difficulties the Iranian legislator has to face in order to find a harmonization between international conventions on the one hand, and level of development of the country on the other. The second part of this thesis analyzes the development of film piracy and counterfeiting, the rise of black market and network evolution in the informal economy of communication, that all impede the efforts to comply the Iranian copyright with international copyright. Film piracy deserves to be seen as closely interwoven into the social, political, cultural and economic environment of today's Iran. This is the idea on which this part of our thesis is based. Through the technological, economic, social and political history of Iran's cinema, this study aims at discovering the reasons for the development of pirate activity in Iran, its consequences for the Iranian film industry and Iranian society. Through this analysis on piracy, this thesis finally presents it as an underground and misunderstood way of developing cultural globalization in Iran in the shadows. In filigree, this analysis shows how business network which pirate market films embody an « underground economy » organizing an underground cultural globalization in Iran
Cohen, Véronique-Déborah. "La spécificité des contrats liés aux technologies issues du numérique. Quelles singularités ces contrats présentent-ils, comparés à ceux du monde analogique ?" Thesis, Paris 2, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA020083/document.
Full textOver the last decades, the fast-evolving technologies and the information and communication technologies (I.C.T) have been widespread in the current analogical world. They are engendered agreements which need a particular approach and which can’t be ignored today, because of their difficulties of application, interpretation, and even of qualification. The analogical world failed to offer a legal framework to that innovative and dynamic digital world creating tremendous legal uncertainty. Consequently, the emerging lack of appropriate agreements forced policymakers, regulators and legislators to elaborate new governance, new regulation and new acts to respond to those needs and expectations issued of the Information Society. The purpose is also to answer to the real needs of the lawyers and the professors of Law. These agreements are very different of the agreements of the analogical world in numerous points, but are inscribed in a logical and natural evolution of the Right of contracts. That’s why, it’s necessary to know what is their place in the legal life, and above all, how they are perceived and analyzed regarding the more "classical" contracts of the analogical world. Furthermore, other questions may be asked : in which kind of environment they evolve? What is characterizing the contracts linked to the information and communication technologies? What makes them so specific and so particular compared with the other agreements? The dematerialization of technology centered object can influence their way of formation, their execution and the balance of the agreements? What are their legal implications? If these agreements make reference to an specific and technical terminology of I.C.T., to the digital world, and if their object may be complex, in reality, the services generated by the Information Society are surrounding us in our daily life and are not different of the services we know since ever
Jansizian, George. "Medhjälpare till brott mot URL? : Vem och när anses man vara medhjälpare?" Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Rättsvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-15246.
Full textThe Pirate Bay was convicted by the Svea Court of Appeals in November 26, 2010 for aiding in crime against Swedish Copyright Law on the grounds that this service promoted the sharing of copyright material without the authors’ consent. The wording in chapter 23, paragraph 4, part 2 of the Swedish Criminal Code reads, "responsibilities in this section are prescribed for a specific act, it shall be imposed not only on those who carried out the deed, but also the one that facilitated this by giving advice or carrying out deeds. The same shall apply in relation to another law or constitutional criminal offense for which imprisonment is prescribed." Nowadays there are several services of similar nature such as the search engine Google and the video streaming service Youtube. These services have not been tested by Swedish law, since they are protected by the Swedish E-Commerce Law. Google and Youtube actively take actions to prevent the occurrence of copyrighted material without the authors' consent. However, there is a considerable amount of copyright material, which most probably has been made available to the public without the authors' consent. These companies can in theory establish a policy against the proliferation of unauthorized materials in an amount sufficient to offset the damage which affects the copyright owners, but still enjoy the title of information society services in the E-Commerce Law, since the social benefits are larger than the caused injury. The Swedish Court of Appeal's judgement is now a landmark for similar services when it comes to the interpretation of aiding crime against the Swedish copyright law. It is nevertheless important that the Supreme Court of Sweden and the EU-court defines the cloudy boundary between the definition information society services and the interpretation of the wording in the 23 chapter 4 § 2 part, Swedish penal code.
Rytinki, M. (Markus). "Musiikkialan tekijänoikeuksien kesto, ansaintalogiikat ja digitaalisen aineiston saatavuus internetissä." Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2018. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789526221182.
Full textTiivistelmä Tutkimus käsittelee musiikin tekijänoikeuden keston perusteluja, musiikkialan ansaintalogiikoita ja digitaalisten musiikkiaineistojen saatavuutta Suomessa. Tarkoituksena oli hahmottaa, miten musiikkiteollisuuden eri osapuolet suhtautuvat tekijänoikeuteen ja miten ne perustelevat tekijänoikeuksien optimaalista kestoa. Tavoitteena oli myös kartoittaa musiikkialan ansaintalogiikat, jotka ovat muuttuneet siirryttäessä analogisesta musiikin kulutuksesta digitaaliseen musiikin kulutukseen, ennen kaikkea suoratoistopalveluihin. Kolmantena tehtävänä oli selvittää, millä tavoilla digitaalista musiikkia on saatavilla internetin välityksellä Suomessa. Tutkimusaineisto koostuu kyselytutkimuksesta, puolistrukturoiduista teemahaastatteluista sekä dokumenttiaineistosta. Tutkimusmenetelmänä käytettiin sekä teoria- että aineistolähtöistä sisällönanalyysia. Tutkimuksessa sovellettuja teorioita ovat John Rawlsin oikeudenmukaisuusteoria, Antonio Gramscin hegemoniateoria, Roman Jakobsonin klassinen kommunikaatiomalli ja Lawrence Lessigin valtateoria. Tutkimus käyttää tekijänoikeuksia koskevan tutkimuskysymyksen kohdalla tulkintateoriana Laura Leppämäen esittämää mallia oikeuksien perusteluista. Tutkimuksen tuloksena on, että sekä tekijänoikeuden nykyistä kestoa että sen lyhentämistä perustellaan ennen kaikkea utilitarismilla. Toinen keskeinen perustelukeino oli työn kautta teoksiin saatava omistusoikeus ja tämän omistusoikeuden kautta tarjoutuva mahdollisuus oikeuksien jättämiseen perintönä tekijän jälkipolville. Ansaintalogiikoiden kohdalla esiin nousi digitaalisesta myynnistä generoituvien tulojen jakamiseen liittyvät ongelmat, joita esiintyy niin musiikintekijöiden ja levy-yhtiöiden välisissä sopimuksissa, suoratoistopalvelujen sisäisissä maksumalleissa kuin internetin alustapalveluiden ja oikeudenhaltijoiden sekä heitä edustavien järjestöjen välisissä sopimuksissa. Heikoimmassa asemassa sopimuksia koskevissa neuvotteluissa ovat musiikintekijät ja artistit. Digitaalisen musiikkiaineiston saatavuuden kohdalla keskeisenä tuloksena on, että aineistoa on saatavilla julkisen palvelun eli yleisten musiikkikirjastojen, kaupallisten palveluiden eli suoratoistopalveluiden ja yhteisöllisten palveluiden eli vertaisverkkojen välityksellä. Musiikkikirjastojen rooli aineistojen tarjoajana on pienentynyt siirryttäessä analogisen musiikin kulutuksesta digitaalisen musiikin kulutukseen
Lu, Jia. "Software Copyright and Piracy in China." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-08-3258.
Full text馬傲秋. "Legal Infrastructures against Copyright Piracy in Taiwan." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/09403265901707736893.
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科技管理研究所
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Intangible assets has become the key resource of competitive advantages, and the related legislations of the intellectual property play the important role to protect them. The creative of culture industry, including music, movie, software and book, not only influences our life but also the international trading and image. However, those industries need integrity legal infrastructures to protect them because of the characteristics of intangible, especially in the digital time. The purpose of this study is to analyze the legal infrastructures of copyright piracy in Taiwan. Based on the practical experiences, the piracy was divided into two kinds, substantial piracy and internet piracy, by the techniques. This study induced the problems of piracy in tracing, judging, and legislating in Taiwan from the references and the interviews, and provided the suggestions of these problems. The problems of tracing piracy are the new model of production and marketing of piracy, the difficulty of tracing piracy in campus, the mistakes of incentive of tracing piracy, the lack of the cooperation between obligee groups, the demands of consumers, the intellectual criminal, the ring, and the piracy advocates. Form these problems, there are some suggestions, the enhancing of the tracers’ professional training, the increasing of the education in legal concept and the understanding between students and obligees, the correcting of incentive of tracing piracy, the improving of the cooperation between obligee groups, increasing the people’s understanding of copyright and propagating the concept of the criminal behavior of piracy, increasing the cost of piracy, controlling the action of the organized criminal, and respecting the different opinions and revising the business model. Besides, in the practical experience, the problem is that the number of penal judgments on piracy and civil indemnification are too low. In the penal cases, the suggestion is that the decision of the establishment of the continuing criminal system in the criminal law. However, in the civil cases, the suggestion is revising and augmenting the “punitive indemnification” copyright law for the manufacturers. As for the legislation, referring to the abroad legislation, we can legislate from the protection in technology and responsibility of traders.
Spender, Lynne, University of Western Sydney, College of Arts, and Centre for Cultural Research. "Digital culture, copyright maximalism, and the challenge to copyright law." 2009. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/42615.
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Fang, Chun-Ming, and 方俊明. "Fight against Online Copyright Piracy: A Case Study of Korean Film Industry." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ghe5pa.
Full text國立臺北科技大學
智慧財產權研究所
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The meaning of intellectual property represents the rights given to people protecting creations of their minds. Hence, it may be discussed and concerned in two aspects of business model and legal concept to examine the production for creativeness and added value. The establishment of the meaning for intellectual property relies on the appropriate protection, distribution and use. It has been seen that copyright is not only the key to protect national culture and works but also forceing international cooperation and defending from piracy while entering into the global competitive market. However, copyright act has been enacted and amended continuously to adjust the international convention and commerce activities. Therefore, the progressing way of copyright for securing cultural development and benefit reveals the goal of this study. The Universal Copyright Convention signed in 1952, and one of its subject matter is the Works of Literature, Science and Art, moreover, Cinematographic Works also being categorized in this area. Especially, Cinematographic Works belong to the cultural and creative industries, with high investment capital and a great amount of added value behind. Our government declared the year of 2002 was promoting action to protect the intellectual property, reinforcing the professional training of enforcement. However, it has been controversial that Internet Service Provider should take whole responsibility or not, while users conducted illegal behavior. Hence, the thesis starts at the global cooperation and competition by knowledge economy and globalization, around on the film industry which may produce huge benefit in the copyright industries. Therefore, taking Korean Film Industry and copyright act as a study case, for the research of the public transmission and “three strikes” induced in 2009, to give comment on the amending aspect to copyright in our country.