Joe Karaganis (ed.): Media Piracy in Emerging Economies (2011) [EN, RU, ES, CN]
Filed under report | Tags: · bolivia, brazil, copyright, culture industry, digital media market, filesharing, india, intellectual property, market, mexico, p2p, piracy, russia, south africa
“Media Piracy in Emerging Economies is the first independent, large-scale study of music, film and software piracy in emerging economies, with a focus on Brazil, India, Russia, South Africa, Mexico and Bolivia.
Based on three years of work by some thirty-five researchers, Media Piracy in Emerging Economies tells two overarching stories: one tracing the explosive growth of piracy as digital technologies became cheap and ubiquitous around the world, and another following the growth of industry lobbies that have reshaped laws and law enforcement around copyright protection. The report argues that these efforts have largely failed, and that the problem of piracy is better conceived as a failure of affordable access to media in legal markets.
“The choice,” said Joe Karaganis, director of the project, “isn’t between high piracy and low piracy in most media markets. The choice, rather, is between high-piracy, high-price markets and high-piracy, low price markets. Our work shows that media businesses can survive in both environments, and that developing countries have a strong interest in promoting the latter. This problem has little to do with enforcement and a lot to do with fostering competition.””
Publisher The Social Science Research Council (SSRC), 2011
Distributed under a Consumer’s Dilemma license
ISBN 978-0-98412574-6
440 pages
PDF (English, added on 2018-5-11)
PDFs (4 languages, from publisher; updated 2015-5-14)
See also Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education, 2018.
Comments (3)Camilla Gray: The Russian Experiment in Art, 1863-1922 (1962–) [EN, SC]
Filed under book | Tags: · art, art criticism, art history, avant-garde, constructivism, cubism, futurism, graphic design, painting, russia, sculpture, suprematism, theatre, typography
When the original edition of this book was published, John Russell hailed it as a ‘massive contribution to our knowledge of one of the most fascinating and mysterious episodes in the history of modern art.’ It still remains the most compact survey of sixty years of creative dynamic activity that profoundly influenced the progress of Western art and architecture.
Publisher Thames and Hudson, 1962, 1970
Revised and enlarged edition by Marian Burleigh-Motley, 1986
ISBN 0500202079, 9780500202074
324 pages
Reviews: Wladimir Weidlé (Slavic Review 1963), Vyacheslav Zavalishin (Russian Review 1963), Nina Juviler (Slavic and East European Journal 1964).
PDF (1970 US edition, 45 MB; added on 2014-3-2)
PDF (1971 UK edition, 111 MB, no OCR; added on 2018-11-4)
PDF (1986 UK edition, 35 MB, no OCR; updated on 2012-7-17)
PDF (Serbo-Croatian, 1978, 28 MB, added on 2024-2-17)
Oleksiy Radynski: Optical Unconscious in Visual Culture (2008) [Ukrainian]
Filed under thesis | Tags: · 1920s, 1930s, cinema, documentary film, film history, film theory, marxism, media theory, psychoanalytics, russia, visual culture
Study of the interaction of Marxist and psychoanalytic projects in theory and practice of documentary films in 1920s and 1930s.
В роботі досліджується взаємодія марксистського та психоаналітичного проектів в теорії та практиці неігрового кіно 1920-30-х років.
Master thesis
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Supervisor: Michael Sobutskiy