| Peer to Peer and the Music Industry: The Criminalization of Sharing Contributor(s): David, Matthew (Author) |
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ISBN: 0857025384 ISBN-13: 9780857025388 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd OUR PRICE: $63.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Business Aspects - Law | Intellectual Property - Copyright |
| Dewey: 338.47 |
| Series: Theory, Culture & Society (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.70 lbs) 200 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This penetrating and informative book provides readers with the perfect systematic critical guide to the file-sharing phenomenon. Combining inter-disciplinary resources from sociology, history, media and communication studies and cultural studies, Matthew David unpacks the economics, psychology, and philosophy of file-sharing. It fuses a deep knowledge of the music industry and the new technologies of mass communication with a powerful perspective on how multinational corporations operate to monopolize markets, how international and state agencies defend property, while a global multitude undermine and/or reinvent both.
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Contributor Bio(s): David, Matthew: - Matthew David is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Social Science at Durham University, and has undertaken research in the areas of new social movements, online data-services in higher education, online training in rural areas and forms of free online music sharing. He is author of Science in Society (Palgrave 2005) and Peer to Peer and the Music Industry (SAGE 2010), and co-author of Social Research (SAGE, latest edition 2011). |