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Determinants in the on-line distribution of digital content: an exploratory analysis
This article shows the phases â and discusses the results â of an empirical analysis addressing the legal
business models that are adopted online to distribute digital content
Hail to the thief: a tribute to Kazaa
THIS PAPER CONSIDERS THE ONGOING LITIGATION against the peer-to-peer network KaZaA. Record
companies and Hollywood studios have faced jurisdictional and legal problems in suing this network
for copyright infringement. As Wired Magazine observes: âThe servers are in Denmark. The software
is in Estonia. The domain is registered Down Under, the corporation on a tiny island in the South Pacific.
The usersâ60 million of themâare everywhere around the world.â In frustration, copyright owners
have launched copyright actions against intermediariesâlike against Internet Service Providers such as
Verizon. They have also embarked on filing suits against individual users of file-sharing programs. In
addition, copyright owners have called for domestic- and international-law reform with respect to digital
copyright. The Senate Committee on Government Affairs of the United States Congress has
reviewed the controversial use of subpoenas in suits against users of file-sharing peer-to-peer networks.
The United States has encouraged other countries to adopt provisions of the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act 1998 in bilateral and regional free-trade agreements
The governmentâs new Digital Economy Act will do little to prevent file sharing â the music industry must continue to innovate online if it is to survive
Nearly as old as the internet, the peer-to-peer file sharing of music online has been a constant bugbear for the music industry, with claims of billions in lost revenues over the past decade. Bart Cammaerts and Bingchun Meng have found that despite these assertions, incomes from innovative online products such as LastFM and Spotify are complementing a resurgence of interest in live music and are driving up industry revenues
WARP: A ICN architecture for social data
Social network companies maintain complete visibility and ownership of the
data they store. However users should be able to maintain full control over
their content. For this purpose, we propose WARP, an architecture based upon
Information-Centric Networking (ICN) designs, which expands the scope of the
ICN architecture beyond media distribution, to provide data control in social
networks. The benefit of our solution lies in the lightweight nature of the
protocol and in its layered design. With WARP, data distribution and access
policies are enforced on the user side. Data can still be replicated in an ICN
fashion but we introduce control channels, named \textit{thread updates}, which
ensures that the access to the data is always updated to the latest control
policy. WARP decentralizes the social network but still offers APIs so that
social network providers can build products and business models on top of WARP.
Social applications run directly on the user's device and store their data on
the user's \textit{butler} that takes care of encryption and distribution.
Moreover, users can still rely on third parties to have high-availability
without renouncing their privacy
Buggy Whips and Broadcast Flags: The Need for a New Politics of Expression
In response to growing fears from the entertainment industry over online file-sharing of valuable content, the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) enacted sweeping regulations over the production of electronic devices in the name of protecting digital television broadcasts. Although the FCC\u27s broadcast flag regulation was struck down on jurisdictional grounds, Hollywood has not given up the push for strict control. If Hollywood successfully acquires broadcast flag protection there could be far-reaching implications for innovation and development of new digital technologies. While content providers have important reasons to protect copyrighted material, there is too much at stake to merely acquiesce to their demands in the name of piracy prevention
The Information Commons: a public policy report
This report describes the history of the information commons, presents examples of online commons that provide new ways to store and deliver information, and concludes with policy recommendations. Available in PDF and HTML versions.BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE at NYU SCHOOL OF LAW
Democracy Program, Free Expression Policy Project
161 Avenue of the Americas, 12th floor New York NY 10013
Phone: (212) 998-6730 Web site: www.brennancenter.org
Free Expression Policy Project: www.fepproject.or
The Information Commons: a public policy report
This report describes the history of the information commons, presents examples of online commons that provide new ways to store and deliver information, and concludes with policy recommendations. Available in PDF and HTML versions.BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE at NYU SCHOOL OF LAW
Democracy Program, Free Expression Policy Project
161 Avenue of the Americas, 12th floor New York NY 10013
Phone: (212) 998-6730 Web site: www.brennancenter.org
Free Expression Policy Project: www.fepproject.or
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