INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & LAW SERIES - Vol.
14Fighting the War on File Sharing
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & LAW SERIES - Vol.
14
Fighting the War
on File Sharing
Aernout Schmidt, Wilfred Dolfsma, Wim Keuvelaar
The explosive growth of the Napster and KaZaA services
shows that peer-to-peer file sharing has tremendous appeal in our information
society. Nevertheless, current legal and economic practices
prevent that these services achieve their full potential. Fighting the
War on File Sharing looks into the issue from the perspectives of IT,
economics and law and combines the results, pointing out ways how to reduce its
escalation and to end the war.
The approach and the solutions reached recognize the influence of outstanding
work produced in different disciplines, such as law and information technology
(Lessig), political anthropology (Douglas, Geertz, Smits), new institutional
economics (Coase, North, Greif) and jurisprudence (Fuller, Bobbitt, Tamanaha).
This book is very important to anyone concerned about how intellectual property
law, economics and rhetoric fuel the war on file sharing, and, in general, to
everyone interested in the future of the Media Industry on Internet.
Aernout Schmidt
and W. Keuvelaar
are both affiliated to elaw@Leiden,
Centre for Law in the Information Society at Leiden University. Wilfred
Dolfsma is affiliated to the
Utrecht School of Economics and to Maastricht University (UNU-MERIT).
Preface
Summary of the Contents
2007,
ISBN 978-90-6704-238-3
230 pp., hardcover
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40.00 /
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75.00
see also:
www.cambridge.org/9789067042383
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