COPYCENSE

"New digital technologies and the online environment pose significant challenges to the traditional business models of the music and film industries. The digital era threatens current revenue models by changing the environment in which copyright operates.

"To prevent unauthorized copying of their works, copyright holders have traditionally relied on practical barriers as well as their legal exclusive rights to control reproduction and distribution. The new technologies vitiating those practical barriers – peer-to-peer (P2P) services, digital compression technologies, and others – are demonstrating just how empty those legal rights may be and how poorly matched they may be with cultural norms and practice.

"Consumers are exploiting the exciting potential for greater interactivity and involvement with content, but also the opportunity to acquire content illicitly, and are thus finding themselves in conflict with many of those who make content possible."

Digital Media Project, Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Assessing the Impact of Policy Choices on Potential Online Business Models in the Music and Film Industries. (.pdf) Jan. 7, 2005.

Attribution: SNTReport.com first discovered news of this report which examines copyright implications for digital business models through a posting in beSpacific, edited by Sabrina I. Pacifici.

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