Self-Help Systems: Good Substitutes for Copyright or New Barriers to Competition?
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Overview: Information and communication technologies are often viewed in the cultural industries as being conducive to copyright infringements. By enabling the reproduction of protected works, they give rise to free riding problems. Non-rivalry in the consumption of cultural goods and the difficulty of shutting out copiers has been an issue since the development of analogue recording technologies. Free riding may well render copyright impossible to apply in the digital economy: Barlow is quick to brand it a "relic" of the pre-digital age. But the absence of copyright would be a loss to artists and producers alike.
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Format: PDF | Size: 142KB | Date: May 2002 | Pages: 12
