Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: van Wijk, J.C.A.C.
Author-Name-Last: van Wijk
Author-Name-First: Jeroen
Title: Dealing With Piracy. Intellectual Asset Management In Music And Software
Abstract: The music and software industry are employing copy-protection devices in CDs and digital downloads to strengthen their weak appropriability regimes that leave ample opportunities for modern-day piracy. The effectiveness of the strategy is explained on the grounds that (a) the knowledge involved in copy protection is generally too sophisticated for consumers to circumvent, and (b) consumers are not allowed to use circumvention techniques created by knowledgeable third parties. Copy protection is controversial, because it deprives consumers from making home copies of music and software, and hence overrules copyright law that exempts the copying for private use. It is argued that the technical enforcement of copyright protection in the home domain of millions of individuals necessitates a wide consensus between business and society about the legitimacy of private and fair use.
Creation-Date: 2002-09-30
File-URL: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/232/erimrs20020930173203.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Series: RePEc:ems:eureri
Number: ERS-2002-86-ORG
Classification-JEL: K11, L2, M, M10
Keywords: appropriability, codification, digital rights management, intellectual assets, managerialism
Handle: RePEc:ems:eureri:232