Speaking for Freedom, Normalizing the Net

Bibliographic Data

ID12972367
AuthorsPeter J Smith (0000-0001-8707-2581, Athabasca University, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume10
Issue4
Pages423-443
Publication date2013-09-18
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Information Technology & Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1933-169X • E-ISSN: 1933-1681
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/19331681.2013.843932
OpenAlexW2140544070
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited21

This article focuses on the efforts of large intellectual property exporters, such as the United States, to curtail Net freedoms by means restrictive copyright and anti-circumvention measures through the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), other international agreements, and reforms of national legislation. These efforts have upset the historical balance between owners and users of copyright, leading to widespread global resistance. The defeat of the ACTA in Europe may represent the last hurrah of the U.S. and the European Union to globalize their norms of digital intellectual property rights. However, the U.S. and EU can still impose their standards on a bilateral basis

Balance (ability · Business · European union · Intellectual property · International trade · Law and economics · Legislation · Political economy · Political science · Property (philosophy · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Copyright and Intellectual Property · Intellectual Property and Patents · Intellectual Property Law · Law · Psychology