Peer-to-Peer Technology and the Copyright Crossroads

2011 ◽  
pp. 166-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacey L. Dogan
Keyword(s):  
Content Distribution ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Copyright Law ◽  
The World ◽  
Economic Markets

The introduction of peer-to-peer technology has posed enormous challenges for traditional copyright law. Whereas historically copyright holders could preserve their core economic markets by pursuing a fairly limited set of commercial actors, peer-to-peer technologies decentralize content distribution and make it possible for anyone with a computer to disseminate infringing content around the world. In the struggle to find a solution to the peer-to-peer crisis, courts and policymakers have considered a number of alternatives, from abandonment of copyright law to a wholesale restructuring of its entitlement structure. This chapter explains why peer-to-peer technology presents such a challenge for copyright, and explores some of the pending proposals to solve the current dilemma.

Digital Copyright

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Litman
Keyword(s):  
Motion Picture ◽  
General Public ◽  
File Sharing ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Copyright Law ◽  
Information Policy ◽  
Free Society ◽  
Digital Copyright ◽  
Exchange Of Information ◽  
Copyright Laws

The general public is used to thinking of copyright (if it thinks of it at all) as marginal and arcane. But copyright is central to our society’s information policy and affects what we can read, view, hear, use, or learn. In 1998 Congress enacted new laws greatly expanding copy owners’ control over individuals’ private uses of their works. The efforts to enforce these new rights laws have resulted in highly publicized legal battles between established media, including major record labels and motion picture studios, and upstart internet companies such as MP3.com and Napster.In this book, I question whether copyright laws crafted by lawyers and their lobbyists really make sense for the vast majority of us. Should every interaction between ordinary consumers and copyright-protected works be restricted by law? Is it practical to enforce such laws, or expect consumers to obey them? What are the effects of such laws on the exchange of information in a free society? My critique exposes the 1998 copyright law as an incoherent patchwork. I argues for reforms that reflect the way people actually behave in their daily digital interactions.The Maize Books edition includes both an afterword written in 2006 exploring the rise of peer-to-peer file sharing and a new Postscript reflecting on the consequences of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act as it nears its twentieth birthday.

Developing a Content Distribution System over a Secure Peer-to-Peer Middleware

2017 ◽  
pp. 211-239
Author(s):  
Ana Reyna ◽  
Maria-Victoria Belmonte ◽  
Manuel Díaz
Keyword(s):  
Distribution System ◽  
Content Distribution ◽  
Peer To Peer

scholarly journals A Peer-to-Peer Content-Distribution Scheme Resilient to Key Leakage

2016 ◽  
Vol E99.D (12) ◽  
pp. 2956-2967
Author(s):  
Tatsuyuki MATSUSHITA ◽  
Shinji YAMANAKA ◽  
Fangming ZHAO
Keyword(s):  
Content Distribution ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Distribution Scheme ◽  
Key Leakage

Unique Features of the Networks

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Dolnicar
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Societal Challenges ◽  
The World ◽  
Accommodation Sector

Peer-to-peer accommodation networks have rocked the established accommodation sector, dramatically increasing the variety of accommodation options available to people around the world. They have also created a number of societal challenges never expected to result from a short-term accommodation trading platform. Something about peer-to-peer accommodation networks is very different from anything we have seen before, although they consist of building blocks which are not new at all. This chapter explores some of the unique features of Airbnb – the leading international peer-to-peer accommodation network – and proposes a conceptual model of elements contributing to Airbnb’s success.

Ambient E-Service

2010 ◽  
pp. 408-417
Author(s):  
Yuan-Chu Hwang
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Business Service ◽  
Collaborative Approach ◽  
Dynamic Interactions ◽  
Significant Wave ◽  
The World ◽  
Intelligent Interaction ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Service Application

The e-services have introduced a significant wave of change in communication patterns around the world. Such e-services are capable of intelligent interaction and are able to discover and negotiate with each other, mediate on behalf of their users and reconfigure themselves into services that are more complex. In this chapter, the author explores the future opportunities and its applications of ambient eservice. Contrast to traditional e-business service delivery method, their proposed service focus on the bottom-up collaborative approach that enables e-business participants to cooperate with nearby users and encourage information sharing and experience co-creation. The notion of ambient e-service is defined to identify a new scope of mobile e-service, which address dynamic collective efforts between mobile users (enabled by Mobile Peer-to-Peer technology), dynamic interactions with ambient environments (envisioned by Location-Based Service), the moment of value (empowered by wireless technologies), and low cost service provision. Several ambient e-service application scenarios will be introduced in the following sections.

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