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- Title
Characterizing Copyright in the Classroom: The Cultural Work of Antipiracy Campaigns.
- Authors
Gillespie, Tarleton
- Abstract
To curb unauthorized downloading, the major media corporations have developed education campaigns aimed at children. This essay interrogates these campaigns in terms of their characterization of copyright law and online infringement. Their lessons tend to recast a balance of societal interests as a simple obligation of respect. File trading is painted in moral terms of right and wrong. Moreover, these campaigns perpetuate industry-centric ideas of what copyright is for and how technology is meant to be used. In the process they reaffirm traditional hierarchies of cultural production and reify the long-standing distinction between producer and consumer—far from neutral assertions in the current debates about cultural policy, and that work against the tide of emerging forms of creativity and collaboration. Zhaiyao
- Subjects
PIRACY prevention (Copyright); DOWNLOADING; COPYRIGHT infringement; INFORMATION ethics; CULTURAL policy; INTERNET
- Publication
Communication, Culture & Critique, 2009, Vol 2, Issue 3, p274
- ISSN
1753-9129
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1753-9137.2009.01039.x