Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Copyright Infringers and the Digital Economy
William H. Dutton, University of Oxford; Oxford Internet Institute, has published Aiming at Copyright Infringers and Hitting the Digital Economy, at 28 Prometheus 385 (December 2010). Here is the abstract.
This article was written as a response to a piece by Birgitte Andersen, which raised concerns over the implications of the UK's Digital Economy Bill. I focus on several reasons why the Bill would not achieve its intended objectives, and is likely to have other, unanticipated negative impacts.
Download the article from SSRN at the link.
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/media_law_prof_blog/2011/03/copyright-infringers-and-the-digital-economy.html