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Mashing-up Culture: Workshop Papers Announced

An initial list of authors and presentations for the COUNTER workshop Mashing-up Culture: The Rise of User-generated Content has been announced. The two-day workshop, Mashing-up Culture: The Rise of User-generated Content, will take place at Uppsala University in Sweden on May 13th-14th, 2009.

A preliminary programme in now available.

The event will be the first organised by the European research project COUNTER which explores the socio-economic and cultural impacts of the consumption of counterfeit goods and will bring together COUNTER researchers with scholars and stakeholders to explore the current state and dilemmas surrounding copyright and the production, consumption and distribution of culture.

Presentations will [...]

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February 16th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Counter Team, Meeting, Workshop | Comments are closed

Rip, Mix, Burn: The Politics of Peer to Peer and Copyright Law

Bowrey, K., & Rimmer, M. (2002). Rip, Mix, Burn: The Politics of Peer to Peer and Copyright Law. First Monday, 7.

Whereas Lessig’s recent work engages with questions of culture and creativity in society, this paper looks at the role of culture and creativity in the law. The paper evaluates the Napster, DeCSS, Felten and Sklyarov [...]

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January 24th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Research Article | Comments are closed

Copyrighting Culture. The Political Economy of Intellectual Property

Bettig, R. V. (1996). Copyrighting Culture. The Political Economy of Intellectual Property. Boulder: Westview Press.

Introduction to the Political Economy of Intellectual Property
The political-economic theory of communications has already made a significant contribution to our understanding of mass communications and society. Denis McQuail identified three prominent trends in media business and technology that have greatly increased [...]

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December 21st, 2008 | Tags: , , , | Category: Research Book | Comments are closed

International software piracy: Analysis of key issues and impacts

Gopal, R. D., & Sanders, G. L. (1998). International software piracy: Analysis of key issues and impacts. Information Systems Research, 9, 380-397.

The pervasiveness of software piracy throughout the world is having a profound effect on the software publishing industry and the development of digital intellectual properties and technologies-especially in developing countries, where the piracy rates [...]

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October 3rd, 2008 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Research Article | Comments are closed