Fighting the War on File Sharing: 14 (Information Technology and Law Series, 14) - Hardcover

Schmidt, Aernout; Dolfsma, Wilfred; Keuvelaar, Wim

 
9789067042383: Fighting the War on File Sharing: 14 (Information Technology and Law Series, 14)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9067042382 ISBN 13: 9789067042383
Publisher: T.M.C. Asser Press, 2007

Synopsis

The explosive growth of the Napster and KaZaA services shows that peer-to-peer file sharing has tremendous appeal in our information society. Nevertheless, current legal and economic practices prevent that these services achieve their full potential. Fighting the War on File Sharing looks into the issue from the perspectives of IT, economics and law and combines the results, pointing out ways how to reduce its escalation and to end the war.


The approach and the solutions reached recognize the influence of outstanding work produced in different disciplines, such as law and information technology (Lessig), political anthropology (Douglas, Geertz, Smits), new institutional economics (Coase, North, Greif) and jurisprudence (Fuller, Bobbitt, Tamanaha).


This book is very important to anyone concerned about how intellectual property law, economics and rhetoric fuel the war on file sharing, and, in general, to everyone interested in the future of the Media Industry on Internet.


Aernout Schmidt and Wim Keuvelaar are both affiliated to elaw@Leiden, Centre for Law in the Information Society at Leiden University. Wilfred Dolfsma is affiliated to the Utrecht School of Economics and to Maastricht University (UNU-MERIT).


This is Volume 14 in the Information Technology and Law (IT&Law) Series

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About the Authors

Professor Doctor A. H. J. Schmidt is Director of eLaw@Leiden, Centre for Law in the Information Society, Leiden University.

Wilfred Dolfsma is an an Associate Professor at the Utrecht School of Economics and a Professorial Fellow at Maastricht University (UNU-MERIT).

Wim Keuvelaar is managing director of Sdu E-Grant.

From the Back Cover

The explosive growth of the Napster and KaZaA services shows that peer-to-peer file sharing has tremendous appeal in our information society. Nevertheless, current legal and economic practices prevent that these services achieve their full potential. Fighting the War on File Sharing looks into the issue from the perspectives of IT, economics and law and combines the results, pointing out ways how to reduce its escalation and to end the war.

The approach and the solutions reached recognize the influence of outstanding work produced in different disciplines, such as law and information technology (Lessig), political anthropology (Douglas, Geertz, Smits), new institutional economics (Coase, North, Greif) and jurisprudence (Fuller, Bobbitt, Tamanaha).

This book is very important to anyone concerned about how intellectual property law, economics and rhetoric fuel the war on file sharing, and, in general, to everyone interested in the future of the Media Industry on Internet.

Aernout Schmidt and Wim Keuvelaar are both affiliated to elaw@Leiden, Centre for Law in the Information Society at Leiden University. Wilfred Dolfsma is affiliated to the Utrecht School of Economics and to Maastricht University (UNU-MERIT).

This is Volume 14 in the Information Technology and Law (IT&Law) Series

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
T.M.C. Asser Press
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9067042382
ISBN 13 
9789067042383
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
230

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