Of Ducks and Downloads: The Moral Economy of Intellectual Property in Post-Soviet Society
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Maria Haigh
As living standards have risen in recent years the citizens of post-Soviet states are turning increasingly toward newly-available high bandwidth Internet connections as a new medium for the exchange of music, films, and computer soft ware. Taking Ukraine as an example, the author argues that users are literally and metaphorically reconstructing imported Internet technologies in accordance with their own pre-existing cultures. The author probes these understandings through analysis of statements on file sharing behavior made by a sample of Ukrainian Internet users. To explain this distinctive technological path, the author examines the interaction of technologies, users, and regulatory regimes. These have shaped the understanding of ordinary users toward what the author, following E.P. Thompson, calls the “moral economy” of copyright and file sharing. The transition from this moral economy of intellectual property to the global intellectual property regime has occurred in law but not in practice.
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- A Critical Review of User Acceptance Research in the Area of Mobile Services
- Information in Isolation: Gossip and Rumour during the UK 2001 Foot and Mouth Crisis – Lessons Learned
- Copyright and Course Management Systems: Educational Use of Copyrighted Materials in the United States and the United Kingdom
- Of Ducks and Downloads: The Moral Economy of Intellectual Property in Post-Soviet Society
- Marketing Orientation of National Libraries
- What a Digital Library of Malay Manuscripts Should Support: An Exploratory Needs Analysis
- Modelling Information-Seeking Behaviour Patterns of Iranian Medical School Academic Staff
- 2010 Annual Award for the Best Libri Student Paper
- Tables of Contents: Vol. 59, No. 1–4
- Author Index: Vol. 59, No. 1–4
