Cammaerts, Bart 
ORCID: 0000-0002-9508-5128 and Meng, Bingchun
(2011)
Creative destruction and copyright protection: regulatory responses to file-sharing.
LSE Media Policy Project Series, Sujon, Zoetanya and Tambini, Damian (eds.) (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 Focusing on efforts to suppress the use of technological advances and toprotect out-of-date business models will stifle innovation in this industry.Providing user-friendly, hassle-free solutions to enable users to download music legally at a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 (Report) |
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| Official URL: | http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/mediapolicyproject/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2011 The Authors, LSE Media Policy Project |
| Divisions: | Media and Communications |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications K Law > KD England and Wales Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science T Technology > T Technology (General) > T201 Patents. Trademarks |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Apr 2011 11:47 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2024 05:53 |
| Projects: | LSE Media Policy Project |
| Funders: | Higher Education Innovation Fund 4 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/33905 |
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