Sharing
In the past fifteen years, file sharing of digital cultural works between individuals has been at the center of a number of debates on the future of culture itself. To some, sharing constitutes piracy, to be fought against and eradicated. Others see it as unavoidable, and table proposals to compensa...
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| description | In the past fifteen years, file sharing of digital cultural works between individuals has been at the center of a number of debates on the future of culture itself. To some, sharing constitutes piracy, to be fought against and eradicated. Others see it as unavoidable, and table proposals to compensate for its harmful effects. Meanwhile, little progress has been made towards addressing the real challenges facing culture in a digital world.Sharing is LegitimateAn in-depth exploration of digital culture and its dissemination,Sharing: Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age offers a counterpoint to the dominant view that file sharing is piracy, analyzing it rather as the modern form of long recognized rights to share in culture. Sharing starts from a radically different viewpoint, namely that the non-market sharing of digital works is both legitimate and useful. Philippe Aigrain looks at the benefits of file sharing, which allows unknown writers and artists to be appreciated more easily. It supports this premise with empirical research, demonstrating that non-market sharing leads to more diversity in the attention given to various works. New Business ModelsConcentrating not only on the cultural enrichment caused by widely shared digital media, Sharing also discusses new financing models that would allow works to be shared freely by individuals without aim at profit. Aigrain carefully balances the needs to support and reward creative activity with a suitable respect for the cultural common good and proposes a new interpretation of the digital landscape. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1686072025-10-24T05:27:05Z Sharing Aigrain, Philippe Creativity Debate The Media Industry The Future Financing Production Creative Contribution Democratic Governance Measurement System Management Costs Government policy thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics In the past fifteen years, file sharing of digital cultural works between individuals has been at the center of a number of debates on the future of culture itself. To some, sharing constitutes piracy, to be fought against and eradicated. Others see it as unavoidable, and table proposals to compensate for its harmful effects. Meanwhile, little progress has been made towards addressing the real challenges facing culture in a digital world.Sharing is LegitimateAn in-depth exploration of digital culture and its dissemination,Sharing: Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age offers a counterpoint to the dominant view that file sharing is piracy, analyzing it rather as the modern form of long recognized rights to share in culture. Sharing starts from a radically different viewpoint, namely that the non-market sharing of digital works is both legitimate and useful. Philippe Aigrain looks at the benefits of file sharing, which allows unknown writers and artists to be appreciated more easily. It supports this premise with empirical research, demonstrating that non-market sharing leads to more diversity in the attention given to various works. New Business ModelsConcentrating not only on the cultural enrichment caused by widely shared digital media, Sharing also discusses new financing models that would allow works to be shared freely by individuals without aim at profit. Aigrain carefully balances the needs to support and reward creative activity with a suitable respect for the cultural common good and proposes a new interpretation of the digital landscape. 2025-10-24T05:27:04Z 2025-10-24T05:27:04Z 2025-10-23T08:31:56Z 2025 book ONIX_20251023T102741_9781040790335_22 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/107825 9781040790335 9781040794524 9781003703631 9789089643858 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/168607 eng open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/107825/1/9781040790335.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003703631 10.4324/9781003703631 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781040790335 9781040794524 9781003703631 9789089643858 Routledge 242 Oxford open access |
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| topic | Creativity Debate The Media Industry The Future Financing Production Creative Contribution Democratic Governance Measurement System Management Costs Government policy thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics |
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