The Death of Copyright: Digital Technology, Private Copying, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Lunney,; Glynn, Stephen

doi:10.2307/1073857

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“…The widespread acceptance of this activity, at least in some segments of the population, suggests that this is seen as something more akin to recording a song off the radio than stealing a CD from a record store. Some argue that this is a form of civil disobedience designed to protest the excessive scope of copyright protections, and attendant limits on distribution and price gouging (Lunney, 2001). There are even cases of encouraging civil disobedience in downloading as a way of honoring civil disobedience in social justice movements, as in the recent case of the illicit free distribution of Eyes on the Prize, a 14-part documentary on the civil rights movement that is not currently in distribution due to copyright problems (Dean, 2005).…”

Section: Ethical Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethical Issues in the Music Industry Response to Innovation and Piracy

Easley

2005

J Bus Ethics

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The current conflict between the recording industry and a portion of its customers who are involved in illicit copying of music files arose from innovations involving the compression and electronic distribution of files over the internet. This paper briefly describes some of the challenges faced by the recording industry, and examines some of the ethical issues that arise in various industry and consumer responses to the opportunities and threats presented by these innovations. The paper concludes by highlighting the risks associated with responses that threaten further innovation, ultimately reducing the chances of finding solutions that hold appeal for all parties.

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Section: Ethical Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethical Issues in the Music Industry Response to Innovation and Piracy

Easley

2005

J Bus Ethics

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“…More or less detailed suggestions of CCS include Lunney (2001), Ku (2002), Netanel (2003), Fisher (2004), Eckersley (2004), and Aigrain (2008Aigrain ( , 2012. Private copying levies (PCL) on copying hardware are a type of CCS that already exists in the USA, Canada, and the majority of European countries.…”

Section: Copyright Compensation Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Going means trouble and staying makes it double: the value of licensing recorded music online

2015

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This paper discusses whether a copyright compensation system (CCS) for recorded music-endowing private Internet subscribers with the right to download and use works in return for a fee-would be welfare increasing. It reports on the results of a discrete choice experiment conducted with a representative sample of the Dutch population consisting of 4986 participants. Under some conservative assumptions, we find that applied only to recorded music, a mandatory CCS could increase the welfare of rights holders and users in the Netherlands by over €600 million per year (over €35 per capita). This far exceeds current rights holder revenues from the market of recorded music of ca. €144 million per year. A monthly CCS fee of ca. €1.74 as a surcharge on Dutch Internet subscriptions would raise the same amount of revenues to rights holders as the current market for recorded music. With a voluntary CCS, the estimated welfare gains to users and rights holders are even greater for CCS fees below €20 on the user side. A voluntary CCS would also perform better in the long run, as it could retain a greater extent of market coordination. The results of our choice experiment indicate that a well-designed CCS for recorded music would simultaneously make users and rights holders better off. This result holds even if we correct for frequently observed rates of overestimation in contingent valuation studies.

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“…A thoughtful essay on the ban on anti‐circumvention devices in U.S. law and in the E.U. directive can be found in Lunney (2001). Mtima (1998) considers some recent key U.S. cases.…”

Section: Copyrightmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These include the removal of alleged infringing material from the Internet and the termination of abusive subscribers (Yen, 2000). Many authors have commented on this aspect of the DMCA (see: Hamdani, 2002; Lunney, 2001; Parker, 2000; von Lohmann, 2002; Yen, 2000).…”

Section: Liabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%