Orchestrating Summary:
Digital Copyright
In the past decade there has been an “explosive growth in the population” of Internet users (Clarke 1999, p.80). Along with this increase with internet participants there has been an increase of digital copyright. Copyright is changing from its previous physical form to an electronic form (Clarke 1999, p.77). People that are involved with any part of copyright i.e. Publishers, buyers and authors are all being affected. Roger Clarke explains that this altercation in copyright structure is causing a “dramatic shift in the economics and politics of publishing” (Clarke 1999, p.77).
Depending on whose perspective you are coming from, this change from non-digital to digital copyright has its positives and negatives effects. From the point of view of buyers, they favour and find it advantageous to use digital copyright because it is easy to use, is very quick to access and the cost are low (Clarke 1999, p.77). <-- You are going to need to define what you mean by digital copyright for your research paper) Artists are much more neutral with their opinions on digital copyright. In a recent survey done by Pew Internet & American Life Project4 it found finds ( stay in the present tense with research summary] that, "file-sharing services are not really bad for artists, since they help to promote and distribute an artist's work to a broad audience.”<-- the period goes after the citation-->] (Gayer & Shy 2005, p.479) Although the attitudes for publishers’ is much more negative because’ digital copyright is reducing their profits since they “can no longer segment the market according to users' disutility from deteriorated quality” (Gayer & Shy 2005, p.486). However because of the loss in the publishers’ revenues, they have been developing the policy of “digital-rights-management”, which is supposed to not only regulate digital copyright but “strengthen the power of publishers” (Digital rights and wrongs 1999, p.2). The article <-- it is the author' who explains, so in your reporting expression use the author's name please] Digital rights and wrongs, explains that under this policy users will not be able to own duplicate copies “without paying extra”. This would create limitations in cyberspace by restricting the flow of information and could someday lead to “copy duty” laws, which “the legal obligation of copyright holders to provide public access” (Digital rights and wrongs 1999, p.22).
When looking at digital copyright there is also a concern for institutions like universities. Universities are caught in crossfire with being both a publisher and purchaser and are being affected from both ends of the spectrum. It is difficult to say which side that they are leaning towards because as publishers, universities would still like to see the revenues from the physical copyright but as buyers they like the facts of how cheap, speedy and simple the digital copyright has become (Clarke 1999, p.77).
In the article Copyright Enforcement in the Digital Era, authors Amit Gayer and Oz Shy explain “that the gain from “becoming digital” may outweigh the losses provided that publishers allocate resources in order to segment the market between buyers and users who copy without paying” citation? . There are concerns that if publishers follow through with “digital-rights-management”, then there may end up being “copyduty laws”, the legal obligation of copyright holders to provide public access” (Digital rights and wrongs 1999, p.22).This also “would create new boundaries in cyberspace by restricting the flow of information” (Digital rights and wrongs 1999, p.20).Therefore Gayer and Shy recommend that publishers should attempt to fully utilize the digital distribution technologies instead of completely opposing them and trying to enforce stricter copyright laws (Gayer and Shy 2005, p.487)
Excellent orchestration, be careful with citations, and try a little more introductory comments concerning the authors. Well done.
And, you will want to include contextual links in your digital research paper.
Works Cited
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Gayer, A, & Shy, O. (2005) Copyright Enforcement in a Digital Era. CESifo Economic
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Trotter Hardy, Contracts, Copyright and Preemption in a Digital World 1 RICH. J.L. &
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