Cammaerts, Bart and Meng, Bingchun (2011) Creative destruction and copyright protection: regulatory responses to file-sharing. Media policy brief, 1. Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
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Abstract
The DEA gets the balance between copyright enforcement and innovation wrong. The use of peer-to-peer technology should be encouraged to promote innovative applications. Focusing on efforts to suppress the use of technological advances and toprotect out-of-date business models will stifle innovation in this industry.Providing user-friendly, hassle-free solutions to enable users to download music legally at a reasonable price, is a much more effective strategy for enforcing copyright than a heavy-handed legislative and regulatory regime. Decline in the sales of physical copies of recorded music cannot be attributed solely to file-sharing, but should be explained by a combination of factors such as changing patterns in music consumption, decreasing disposable household incomes for leisure products and increasing sales of digital content through online platforms.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Discussion Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/mediapolicyproject/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2011 The Authors. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially,and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial,they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms. |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | K Law > KD England and Wales P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1990 Broadcasting |
| Sets: | Departments > Media and Communications |
| Rights: | http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/rights/LSERO.htm |
| Identification Number: | 1 |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/33905/ |
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