media policy brief 1 Creative Destruction and Copyright Protection Regulatory Responses to File-sharing Bart Cammaerts and Bingchun Meng London School of Economics and Political Science Department of Media and Communications LSE Media Policy Project: Media policy brief 1 Creative destruction and copyright protection Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank Professors Robin Mansell and Sonia Livingstone for their insightful editorial contributions on earlier drafts of this
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fines and imprisonment is not enough to dissuade the Pirate Bay from encouraging, boosting and helping copyright infringement. In some companies, file sharing services are provided to generate business revenue stream and sometimes these services are illegal and still used to advertise “clue chips brand”, (Andersen, B, 2010). So far there is enough potential for the business to be made, file sharing will sustain its existence in the global internet market. This papers focuses on the legal and
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Violation The ongoing dispute over illegal Internet-based file sharing between the entertainment and software industries and the vast, online pirating community has been one of the most debated topics. Gripping public attention for the past decades. Napster, a website created by a college dropout became an empire. Used by hundreds of millions of people, that robs billions in revenue each year. Although these rogue websites claimed to only be hosts for illegal file sharing, the United States government
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School, holds an Annual Academic Year CEO Panel. The 2003 session's title was "Here Be Pirates! Facing the Music: Issues in the Transformation of the Music Industry." The panel consisted of a diverse mix of music industry experts, each of whom shared his views on the cataclysmic effects illegal Internet downloading is having on this beleaguered market sector. Estimates of how much music CD sales have suffered from Internet piracy in the last three years vary from about 14% to the figure most
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Swot Analysis pg 1 Swot Analysis of Walt Disney Strengths • Disney owns the rights to one of the world’s most beloved characters, Mickey Mouse. Mickey and his friends have legions of both adult and child fans who flock to purchase merchandise depicting the characters. The company has marketed apparel, movies, and books depicting the character and his friends. Mickey Mouse and the Walt Disney logo are one of the most famous and well known logos in history. • Another strength of the
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Chapter 4: Ethical and Social Responsibility in Marketing Annual losses from theft of intellectual property: • Music industry…$12.5 billion • Movie industry…$18.2 billion • Software…$53.0 billion Losses from peer-to-peer downloading is perceived to be unethical by the majority of the US public, but only by one third of college students. Societal Values and Attitudes: • Are relative • Affect ethical and legal relationships It is not uncommon for a
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marketing-plan of Apple Computer" "entering the digital music revolution" "Course Lecturer: John F. Sykes" "Author: Urs Gaudenz" "Submitted: January 22nd 2004" " CONTENTS" "1 Introduction 4" "2 Methodology 4" "3 Digital Music Revolution
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illegally downloading it online; in the same way I will only use the program for good rather than a means of disgracing people or falsifying information. Computers and the systems that go on them are all incredibly useful for different operations in life and I believe we should not tarnish that helpfulness. Ethical situations involving computers and software arise frequently. High school and college students are continuously plagued with propaganda about illegalities of downloading music, movies
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Over the past decade, the music industry has experienced extreme change due to digitization. Not only has it affected the way that music is recorded and produced, but it has also affected the entire business model of how music is promoted and distributed to the public, as well as how revenue is earned. Prior to the digital era, major labels were one of the primary distributors of music, and physical record sales were the one of industry’s main revenue sources. But when recordings were transformed
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of information, one can enjoy a borrowed song but is assumed that it is piracy or stealing. Is this a fair assumption? This paper will discuss both sides Intellectual Property of Peer to Peer (P2P) downloading and sharing issues and let the reader form their own opinions. . Peer To Peer Downloading and Sharing Definition and History “Peer-to-Peer” technology, what is meant when this phrase is mentioned in the world of electronic entertainment or computers? Usually in today’s environment, this
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