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Pirates and Proprietary Rights: Perceptions of ‘Ownership’ and Media Objects Within Filesharing Communities

Author : Virginia Crisp

Published in: Cult Media

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

For film audiences, the move from analogue to digital brings with it an increased opportunity to access (and adapt) the constituent parts of a film. Within the context of online piracy, the media ‘objects’ shared are necessarily already disconnected from this final ‘product’ form. Furthermore, the file sharers discussed herein suggest that certain proprietorial rights are accorded to them because of the creative labour involved in modifying and sharing films within their community. However, due to what the community members acknowledge as the ‘illegal’ nature of their activities, their understandings of ownership become both complicated and conflicted. Thus, this chapter will examine how these file sharers engage with these consumer film ‘products’ and how such actions are interconnected with their practices of intangible product piracy.

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Metadata
Title
Pirates and Proprietary Rights: Perceptions of ‘Ownership’ and Media Objects Within Filesharing Communities
Author
Virginia Crisp
Copyright Year
2017
Book
Cult Media

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-63678-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-63679-5

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63679-5_8