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Metaphors, Law and Digital Phenomena: the Swedish pirate bay court case

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

This article uses conceptual metaphor theory to develop the concept of ‘skeumorphs’ (reuse of old concepts for new phenomena) in order to analyse the Swedish The Pirate Bay court case. In line with conceptual metaphor theory, which states that abstract thinking is largely metaphorical, the article argues that this is true also for digital phenomena that, thus, are largely understood through metaphors and skeumorphs. Also, when attempting to understand and conceptualize new digital phenomena such as The Pirate Bay (TPB), law in a digital society is inevitably affected. Hence, new phenomena can be fought over in a ‘battle of metaphors’, in the TPB court case, for example, evidenced by the arguments of seeing TPB as ‘a platform’, ‘bulletin board’, or an ‘impure search engine’. This, here argued, was of key relevance for the outcome of the case.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2013

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

354-379

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

International Journal of Law and Information Technology

Volym

21

Issue

4

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Oxford University Press

Ämne

  • Law and Society
  • Information Systems, Social aspects

Nyckelord

  • metaphors
  • conceptions
  • skeumorphs
  • The Pirate Bay
  • copyright
  • intellectual property
  • conceptual development

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1464-3693