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Conceptions of Copyright in a Digital Context. A Comparison between French and American File-sharers

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

What type of metaphors do file-sharers employ to conceptualise copyright in a digital society? How do they understand property and intellectual property in this context? How do they conceive the file-sharing community and how does this ‘online piracy’ connect or not connect to law, social norms, copyright enforcement, and computational traceability? Given the historical variations in the inherent emphasis on ownership and attribution in copyright law within an American vis-à-vis a French continental context, are there, for example, noticeable differences between the American and the French respondents? By drawing heavily from conceptual metaphor theory, this article analyses findings from a large-scale survey (20,000 respondents) on online file-sharing. The results indicate that copyright is not seen as ‘property’ by the respondents at all, that a majority of the US and French file-sharers would prefer to be more anonymous online in order to avoid legal enforcement, and that almost one out of five already uses such tools. The results indicate that there is a difference in how the American and the French file- sharers understand or conceptualise the future of file-sharing and its relationship to copyright and that the French file-sharers focus more on the actual artists, while the American file-sharers focus more on the role of the industry and the government.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2014

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

89-102

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Lexis - E-Journal in English Lexicology

Issue

8

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Centre d’Etudes Linguistiques

Ämne

  • Law and Society
  • Information Systems, Social aspects

Nyckelord

  • the Pirate Bay
  • file-sharing
  • conceptual metaphor
  • copyright
  • intellectual property

Status

Published

Projekt

  • Legal Challenges in a Digital Context

Forskningsgrupp

  • Cybernorms

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1951-6215