Open Directory - Society: Issues: Intellectual Property: Copyrights: Filesharing
See also: This category in other languages: - Arguments for and against filesharing, with a focus on trading MP3s. - The story and defense of Joel Tenenbaum who has been accused by the recording industry of sharing seven songs on a P2P network. Includes a repository of the court filings related to the case. - Alliance of various music industry organizations advocating against distributing copyrighted music. - A blog about the relationship between piracy, youth culture, pop culture and innovation. Information on the book The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Re-invented Capitalism and author and speaker Matt Mason. - Streaming audio of a presentation by Lawrence Lessig, a discussion between him and Jeff Tweedy on digital filesharing, and question and answer session. Part of "Live From the New York Public Library". - Video of Lawrence Lessig's slideshow synchronized with the audio of his presentation. - Jon Healey writes about the semantic debate over whether copyright infringement is theft, in response to an Op-Ed submission that called for file sharing to be decriminalized. (February 18, 2008) - Profile of BitTorrent tracking site The Pirate Bay and file-sharing evangelism. [Times Online] (January 07, 2007) - The hits at the top of the charts lose sales, but the niche artists further down the popularity curve actually benefit from file-trading, according to a Harvard paper on the economics of filesharing. [The Long Tail] (November 24, 2005) - Interview with Wilco, a band that dropped its label and file shared its album, achieving commercial success and Grammy nominations. [Wired] (November 15, 2004) - "A controversial new study by economists at Harvard and the University of North Carolina has found that file-sharing is not the cause of declining CD sales." [Rolling Stone] (April 05, 2004) - "File sharing isn't just a problem for the music industry. It's a threat to anyone who depends upon intellectual property for a living." By Scott Matthews. [Salon] (September 12, 2003)
