‘Copying is not theft’
Jag har varit inne på det förut, den där tanken om hur exemplarkontrollen i upphovsrätten inte fungerar så bra i sin överförda bemärkelse online. Hur det metaforiska inramandet i att överföra begrepp från en analog, fysisk kontext till en digital kontext som innehåller helt andra typer av begränsningar. Ni vet, är det verkligen stöld att kopiera, osv.
Man kan uttrycka problemen med den metaforiska överföringen som jag gjorde i min och Håkans artikel förra året*:
When the idea of property rights are established in an analogue reality and then transferred to a digital one, certain problems will occur. An obvious one, which reflects the two sides of the debate over the handling of media content, is the “copyism” of Internet communications on the one hand and “theft” on the other. From a traditional perspective, the illegal file sharing of copyrighted content has been called theft. The metaphor is problematic in the sense that a key element of stealing is that the individual who has been robbed physically loses the stolen object; this of course is not the case with file sharing, since files are copied.
Men man kan också uttrycka det med en liten film och musik, vilket på många sätt är mycket roligare. Sitter och hetsar med avhandling som jag ska blir klar med i sommar, och kopplade av med lite slösurfande kring saker jag skriver om. Trillade på den här. Copying is not theft.
* Larsson and Hydén (2010) Law, deviation and paradigmatic change: Copyright and its metaphors, in Vargas Martin et al. Technology for Facilitating Humanity and Combating Social Deviations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, IGI Global.
Det är ju för övrigt samma dilemma som jag utvecklade i mitt bidrag [pdf] till antologin Efter The Pirate Bay, där jag räknade ut vad en hel bittorrentsajt skulle vara värd om man använde samma monetära värderingslogik som Tingsrätten och senare Hovrätten godkände i fallet med TPB.
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