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Erose Sthapit Intellectual Property Rights in Media and Cultural Industries - (OLAW0604)
Economic Impact
31 countries, larger pirated music markets than commercial Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Pakistan, Paraguay, Russia, Spain, and Ukraine - unacceptable levels of music piracy 2003, Pakistan (84% of music sold is pirated), produced 230 million copies of both CDs and DVDs. 25 million copies sold within the country, remaining 205 million copies sold throughout the world 2003, piracy, 120,000 job losses in the US and 100,000 in the EU Global music industry, from $40 billion to $32 billion, 2 years: 2000 to 2002 2003, international authorities seized 56 million fake units of music
Social Impacts
Mostly affect the artists, creators, and entrepreneurs Products of local musicians, music groups, record companies, and distributors, pushed out of the market by the counterfeit copies Low price No artwork, lyrics, or printed material which accompany legitimate copies No guarantee as to quality Affects national efforts to promote local culture and identity
Hadopi graduated response law Decline in P2P levels, 26% in France, 2 million P2P users stooped the activity US, ISP graduated response programme being implemented with major ISPs New Zealand, graduated response law implemented 2011, indications of impact Italy and Belgium, decline in visits to infringing sites by 70-80% Spain, a new law introduced to block illegal websites
Conclusion
Much higher in developing states Mass production of counterfeit products, lack of government intervention Competing with a market that can provide their products for free Taking control of the internet vs. right to information Need to embrace the price competition Socially unacceptable, legal - graduated response, influence consumer habits Collaboration of government authorities and different business sectors Piracy led cultural destruction - part of the problem, ways to bring about a change in the consumer behavior need to be taken into consideration
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