1. FILE SHARING: DIFFERENTPERSPECTIVES

2.

Lost sales

Hurts 'the little guy

Equivalent to shoplifting

WHY DO THEY SAY IT'S UNETHICAL? 3.

Does not hurt sales

Does not hurt 'the little guy

Not quite the same as shoplifting

WHY IT'S NOT UNETHICAL 4.

Mix tapes

Time shifting

Lending

SIMILARITIES TO EXISTING MODELS 5.

Nine Inch Nails

Radiohead

SUCCESS STORIES 6.

Difficult to find particular bands in many locations

Not willing to pay $15 on a guess

DISCOVERING NEW BANDS 7. 8. BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE 9. ???QUESTION??? 10. NAPSTER 11. ITUNES 12. KAZAA 13.

Allows users to become familiar with potential music.

Sampling Effect

Network Effects

Indirect Appropriability

FILE SHARING: OTHER CLAIMS 14.

A study by Stan J. Leibowitz

A sudden decline observed starting 1999, the year Napster was born.

ECONOMISTS EXAMINE FILE-SHARING AND MUSIC SALES 15. SURVEY BY UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND SCHOOL OF LAW 16. IPOQUE STUDY 17.

Economic theory suggests that P2P file sharing will decrease album sales.

File sharing threatens artists' ability to sell their music through digital downloading

Digital downloading will suffer if file sharing is not controlled.

Making copyrighted material instantly available to the world without the owner's permission is stealing.

- Norbert J. Michel CONCLUSION 18. ARE FILE SHARING ACTIVITIESLEGAL OR NOT?

File-sharing programs (Limewire, KaZaa)

Legal file-sharing activities (Less common)

Illegal file-sharing activities (Most common)

19. COPYRIGHT LAW

Copyright law covers the creative or artistic expression of an idea.

Intellectual Property

Copyright Infringement

20. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Intellectual property is a bundle of exclusive rights over creations of the mind such as musical, literacy, and artistic works; inventions; and symbols, names, images, and designs used in commerce, including copyrights, trademarks, patents, and related rights

21. COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT

Copyright infringement (or copyright violation) is the unauthorized use of material that is covered by copyright law, in a manner that violates one of the copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce or perform the copyrighted work, or to make derivative work.

22. EXAMPLE OF TRIAL INVOLVING FILE-SHARING ACTIVITIES

Mostly going after the people who make the files available rather than the people who download the files

Jammie Thomas(October 3 rd ,2007)

Fined $222,000 for making 24 songs available on KaZaa

23. WORTH A WATCH

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1SI8lcGiubQ