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*Discourse can play a strategic role, alongside structural advantages, in promoting the interests of particular groups | *Discourse can play a strategic role, alongside structural advantages, in promoting the interests of particular groups | ||
− | Actors appeal to general justificatory principles to legitimate economic arrangements involving a broader claim to public legitimacy (“about what is good, right and just”). | + | *Actors appeal to general justificatory principles to legitimate economic arrangements involving a broader claim to public legitimacy (“about what is good, right and just”). |
* Policy consultations do not always translate into political outcomes and may be short circuited by the direct lobbying of politicians for example. | * Policy consultations do not always translate into political outcomes and may be short circuited by the direct lobbying of politicians for example. | ||
* The right holders tend to already enjoy structural advantages in the copyright debate. Their strategic use of discourse allows for the reinforcement of these the structural advantages. | * The right holders tend to already enjoy structural advantages in the copyright debate. Their strategic use of discourse allows for the reinforcement of these the structural advantages. |
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Edwards, Klein, Lee, Moss and Philip (2015) | |
Title: | Discourse, justification and critique: towards a legitimate digital copyright regime? |
Author(s): | Edwards, L., Klein, B, Lee, D., Moss, G, Philip, F |
Year: | 2015 |
Citation: | Edwards, L., Klein, B., Lee, D., Moss, G., & Philip, F. (2015). Discourse, justification and critique: towards a legitimate digital copyright regime?. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 21(1), 60-77. |
Link(s): | Definitive , Open Access |
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About the Data | |
Data Description: | Alongside a literature review, the authors carry out an analysis of film, music and television industries marketing campaigns aimed at users and, through corporate and industry association websites, industry submissions to two major reviews of copyright commissioned by the UK government: The Gowers Review of Intellectual Property in 2006 and the Hargreaves Review of Digital Opportunity and Growth in 2011. |
Data Type: | Secondary data |
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Cross Country Study?: | No |
Comparative Study?: | No |
Literature review?: | Yes |
Government or policy study?: | No |
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Abstract
"Digitization and the internet have posed an acute economic challenge to rights holders in the cultural industries. Faced with a threat to their form of capital accumulation from copyright infringement, rights holders have used discourse strategically in order to try and legitimate and strengthen their position in the digital copyright debate with governments and media users. In so doing, they have appealed to general justificatory principles – about what is good, right, and just – that provide some scope for opposition and critique, as other groups contest their interpretation of these principles and the evidence used to support them. In this article, we address the relative lack of academic attention paid to the role of discourse in copyright debates by analysing user-directed marketing campaigns and submissions to UK government policy consultations. We show how legitimacy claims are justified and critiqued, and conclude that amid these debates rests some hope of achieving a more legitimate policy resolution to the copyright wars – or at least the possibility of beginning a more constructive dialogue."
Main Results of the Study
- Discourse can play a strategic role, alongside structural advantages, in promoting the interests of particular groups
- Actors appeal to general justificatory principles to legitimate economic arrangements involving a broader claim to public legitimacy (“about what is good, right and just”).
- Policy consultations do not always translate into political outcomes and may be short circuited by the direct lobbying of politicians for example.
- The right holders tend to already enjoy structural advantages in the copyright debate. Their strategic use of discourse allows for the reinforcement of these the structural advantages.
- The authors note that in government consultations and particularly in industry campaigns, the stakeholders do not need to respond to counter arguments or account for limitations and inconsistencies. Because the ‘generic structures’ through which copyright policy is debated do not require participants to engage directly with each other, these ‘generic structures’ are limited.
Policy Implications as Stated By Author
- The authors are hopeful that a more legitimate resolution to the copyright war or at that at least the beginning of a more constructive debate could become reality. However, this would require a more deliberative process of policy making with a structured form of deliberation and the involvement of all the parties.
- The authors stress the need to have the members of the public involved. Although the members of the public might not have clear and detailed knowledge of rational justifications in relation to copyright, they can be a source of legitimate perspective on the matter and should not just be considered as copyright infringers.
Coverage of Study
Datasets
Sample size: | 78 |
Level of aggregation: | Publication |
Period of material under study: | Non stated |
Sample size: | 34 |
Level of aggregation: | Corporate and Industry Associations Website |
Period of material under study: | Non stated |
Sample size: | 4 |
Level of aggregation: | Marketing campaign |
Period of material under study: | Non stated |