Intellectual Property Law Compliance in Europe: Illegal File Sharing and the Role of Social Norms
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Abstract
The current study empirically demonstrates the widely discussed gap between copyright law and social norms. Theoretically founded in the sociology of law, the study uses a well-defined concept of norms to quantitatively measure changes in the strength of social norms before and after the implementation of legislation. The ‘IPRED law’ was implemented in Sweden on 1 April 2009, as a result of the EU IPR Enforcement Directive 2004/48/EC. It aims at enforcing copyright, as well as other IP rights, when they are violated, especially online. A survey was conducted three months before the IPRED law came into force, and it was repeated six months later. The approximately one thousand respondents between fifteen and twenty-five years-of-age showed, among other things, that although actual file-sharing behaviour had to some extent decreased in frequency, social norms remained unaffected by the law.
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Research areas and keywords | Subject classification (UKÄ) – MANDATORY
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Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1147-1163 |
Journal | New Media & Society |
Volume | 14 |
Issue number | 7 |
Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Publication category | Research |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
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Håkan Hydén, Måns Svensson, Stefan Larsson & MARCIN DE KAMINSKI
KK-stiftelsen
2009/01/01 → 2013/12/31
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