Peer to Peer and the Music Industry (eBook)

The Criminalization of Sharing

Matthew David (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2009
200 Seiten
Sage Publications (Verlag)
978-1-4462-4431-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Have the music and movie industries lost the battle to criminalize downloading? This penetrating and informative book provides readers with the perfect systematic critical guide to the file-sharing phenomenon. Combining inter-disciplinary resources from sociology, history, media and communication studies and cultural studies, David unpacks the economics, psychology and philosophy of file-sharing. The book carefully situates the reader in a field of relevant approaches including network society theory, post-structuralism and ethnographic research. It uses this to launch into a fascinating enquiry into: the rise of file-sharing the challenge to intellectual property law posed by new technologies of communication the social psychology of cyber crime the response of the mass media and multi-national corporations. Matthew David concludes with a balanced, eye-opening assessment of alternative cultural modes of participation and their relationship to cultural capitalism. This is a landmark work in the sociology of popular culture and cultural criminology. It fuses a deep knowledge of the music industry and the new technologies of mass communication with a powerful perspective on how multinational corporations seek to monopolize markets, how international and state agencies defend property, while a global multitude undermine and/or reinvent both.

Inhalt

Introduction
The Global Network Society: Territorialization and Deterritorialization
File-Sharing: A Brief History
Markets and Monopolies in Informational Goods: Intellectual Property Rights and Protectionism
Legal Genealogies
Technical Mythologies and Security Risks
Media Management
Creativity as Performance: The Myth of Creative Capital
Alternative Cultural Models of Participation, Communication and Reward?
Conclusions

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.12.2009
• Reihe/Serie: Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
• Reihe/Serie: Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Creative economy • Creative Industries • Cultural Economy • Cultural Industries • Cultural industry • Download • Downloading • File Sharing • File-Sharing • Intellectual Property • internet crime • network society • popular culture • popular music • sociology of new media • Sociology of Science • Sociology of technology
• ISBN-10: 1-4462-4431-8 / 1446244318
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4462-4431-9 / 9781446244319