Parallel Norms: File-sharing and Contemporary Copyright Development in Australia
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Summary, in English
This article studies contemporary Australian copyright and contrasts this to a large-scale online survey on file sharing in order to analyse the seemingly parallel and non-compliant legal and social norms that they represent. Furthermore, a selection of 3,575 Australian respondents to an online survey is compared to a large scale near global group of over 96,000 respondents, allowing determining distinctive traits of the Australian respondents. For example, the latter use offline methods for sharing and receive rather than distribute content to a higher extent in comparison to the global group of respondents. Furthermore, Australian respondents also have slightly less predominance of male sharers.
Department/s
- Department of Sociology of Law
- Lund University Internet Institute (LUii)
- Centre for Work, Technology and Social Change (WTS)
Publishing year
2014
Language
English
Pages
1-15
Publication/Series
Journal of World Intellectual Property
Volume
17
Issue
1-2
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Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Topic
- Law and Society
- Information Systems, Social aspects
Keywords
- intellectual property
- parallel norms
- copyright
- file-sharing
- Australia.
- online piracy
Status
Published
Project
- Legal Challenges in a Digital Context
Research group
- Cybernorms
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1747-1796