By Philippe Aigrain
An in-depth exploration of electronic tradition and its dissemination, Sharing deals a counterpoint to the dominant view that dossier sharing is piracy. as a substitute, Philippe Aigrain appears on the merits of dossier sharing, which permits unknown writers and artists to be preferred extra simply. Concentrating not just at the cultural enrichment brought on by broadly shared electronic media, Sharing also discusses new financing versions that may enable works to be shared freely through participants with no target at revenue. Aigrain rigorously balances the desires to help and gift inventive activity with an appropriate appreciate for the cultural common reliable and proposes a brand new interpretation of the electronic landscape.
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So we have great opportunities and great challenges. To address them, we explore a wider range of solutions to promoting a flourishing, sharing-compatible cultural economy. Existing schemes such as market sales of goods and services, copyright revenues from commercial reuse, or public subsidies4 will remain essential. New schemes such as voluntary resource pooling between individuals to finance specific projects are emerging, and they are proving relevant to address some financing challenges in digital media, for instance for investigative reporting or documentary movie production.
In this chapter, we analyze them and complement them with our own proposal. We discuss the benefits and drawbacks of the various models, and obstacles which must be overcome before they can be implemented in reality. A major distinction between different models is which rights they give to whom. Do they give actual usage rights to individuals? On which basis do they plan to reward creators?
2006), which results in Zipf’s law being quite a poor fit to the distribution of access, except when considering only a few hundred thousand most popular files. More details of our analysis are given in appendix A. We have chosen to focus on the 2 million most popular files in the eDonkey sharing. These files received 94% of all access, and they are likely to contain a high proportion of music (as film, video and TV sharing had already switched to BitTorrent by the time, see Oberholzer-Strumpf 2010, p.