Private copying vs. Pirate copying
I`m sitting here looking back at the days when we were producing homemade cassette tapes, containing selected songs copied from vinyl or radio. I remember how pleased I was when a new cassette was produced, the feeling listening to the music organized in my way, and the annoying moment when the tape was stuck in the cassette deck and the product was destroyed. This will be a light version in relation to the media society that surrounds us, and the debate related to issues about copyrights. Anyway, it`s relevant. A thought about pirate copies and private copying immediately strikes. If the current paragraphs and rules about copyright would follow the Prescription of Dr. Thomas Rieber-Mohns Council, the right to take copies for private use will only be legal within the house’s four walls. This will mean that a you can no longer send a mp3 file to a friend via your mobile phone. A student living away from home will not be able to add a homemade cd as a christmasgift to his parents. You will not be able to borrow a e-book by a friend. Is this far beyond the common sense? Is this the way we`re going to like it? If the rules about copyrights should be changed, and enforced in such a way that large groups in our society will be affected, it can turn back on copyright. Thomas Nortvedt pointed at this issue at a seminar about copyright where Thomas Rieber-Mohns doctoral thesis was presented. Read more?.
The copying of creative and intellectual products is in the starting point reserved the author. Copying for private use is allowed through”Rules for private copying”in “Copyright Act, §.12”. This provision has enabled the basis for copying from vinyl to cassette, or to copy from a book. This provision has in recent times been the alibi for the mass copying of files in open networks on the Internet. The counter from film and music industry was”Copy blocking”, but as we know, all the barriers will be teared down. Source: http://www.nettavisen.no/it/article2610482.ece
It must be mass copying of material protected by copyright we need tofight, not the small concerns about homemade christmasgifts or MP3 files sent via mobile phones. If the right for private copying is refined to the four walls, it will make war against the many citizens common sense. This will produce a conflict related to basic sharing mechanisms encouraging in the society. These sharing mechanisms are central in relation to how cultural expression and ideas are distributed, and in relation to how culture is created and developed.
Don’t get me wrong: I am not talking about illegal file sharing. I meditate on the cultural exchange that goes on one between human beings. People who cares about culture.
Online, internett. (http://www.digi.no/92908/naa-blir-det-vanskeligere-aa-vaere-no-pirat) 10.mai. 2010.kl13.14.
Online internet. Nettartikkel:"Har du lov til å kopiere musikk fra en venn som har piratkopiert?"
(http://www.nettavisen.no/it/article2610482.ece) 30.april, 2010. kl 15.00
Online, internett. Youtube video, om privatkopiering v.s piratkopiering (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEkgVP4yL60) 23.mai. 2010. kl.11.21.
Online, internet. Video privatkopiering.(http://web2.gyldendal.no/Nyhetsbrev/GNF/generell/?video=../video/seminar_del1_lo.mp4) 30.april. kl.13.05.
