Understanding copyright : intellectual property in the digital age /

How cultural property is created, governed, protected, circulated and accessed raises serious questions for individuals, activists and governments. Taking a rounded view of the debates and perspectives that have emerged as essential to the struggle over copyright in the digital age, this book: * Loo...

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Main Author: Klein, Bethany
Other Authors: Moss, Giles, Edwards, Lee (Lee M. S.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles, California : SAGE, 2015
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : understanding copyright in the digital age
  • A brief history of copyright : where we are and how we got here
  • Copyright and the creative economy : how the cultural industries exert influence
  • Technologies and corporations in the middle : how internet intermediaries are drawn into the debate
  • Creative workers and copyright : how current and future creators benefit from cultural labour
  • Consumers, criminals, patrons, pirates : how users connect to copyright
  • Copyright policy : how policy represents (or fails to represent) different groups
  • The future of copyright : how we can learn from the debate