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"This book challenges the prevailing view of cinema culture, that Hollywood and the US creates, produces, and exports, with other countries importing, modifying, and sometimes pirating "original" American work.

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the question, whether copyright infringement of digital products like software commonly labelled as piracy impedes innovation. We find the answer depends on the nature of piracy i.e. whether it is end-users or commercial piracy. For end user piracy, copyright infringement does not necessarily impede innovation; in fact it can be shown that it encourages innovation when the pirates are active. However, for commercial piracy, it always impedes innovation which has negative implications on the overall welfare of the society. We show under what conditions the government intervention through IPR protection strategy (like monitoring and imposing a fine to the pirate) can support the copyright holder for higher level of innovation. We find the socially optimally monitoring rate for the government that result in maximum innovation for the copyright holder

More intensive copyright enforcement reduces piracy, raises prices, and lowers consumer surplus. We show that these results do not hold regarding the extent rather than intensity of enforcement. When enforcement is targeted at high-value buyers such as corporate and government users, the copyright holder has an incentive to charge super-monopoly prices, thereby encouraging piracy among low-value buyers. Extending enforcement down the demand curve broadens the copyright holder's captive market, leading to lower prices and higher sales that can increase both profits and consumer surplus. The standard tradeoff between the incentive to generate intellectual property and the cost of monopoly power is therefore avoided. Private enforcement by copyright holders may be insuciently extensive since consumers can also benefit from more extensive enforcement. Similarly, new technologies which lead to stronger control over illicit use can paradoxically benefit consumers.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- On Piracy -- List of Acronyms -- Part I - Ontology -- The Pirate Imaginary and the Potential of the Authorial Pirate -- To Name a Thief: Constructing the Deviant Pirate -- "You Can't Change our Ancestors Without our Permission": Cultural Perspectives on Biopiracy -- Piratical Community and the Digital Age: The Structural Racialization of Piracy in European Law and Culture1 -- Part II - Politics -- Modernity, Law and the Violence of Piracy, Property and the State -- 'Pirates' in EU's (Semi)Peripheries -- The IPR GPR: The Emergence of a Global Prohibition Regime to Regulate Intellectual Property Infringement -- BitTorrent: Stealing or Sharing Culture? A Discussion of the Pirate Bay Case and the Documentaries "Steal This Film I & II" -- The Internet Between Politics and the Political: -- Cultural Resistance or Corporate Assistance: -- Part III - Practice -- The Justifications of Piracy: -- Set the Fox to Watch the Geese: -- Pirate Economies and the Production of Smooth Spaces -- The Collaborative Production of Amateur Subtitles for Pirated TV Shows in Brazil -- After Piracy: Reflections of Industrial Designers in Taiwan on Sustainable Innovations -- Piracy is Normal, Piracy is Boring: -- An Epilogue Privacy is Theft: On Anonymous Experiences, Infrastructural Politics and Accidental Encounters -- Contributing Authors -- INDEX.

A study of the involvement of organized-crime and terrorist groups in product counterfeiting. Case studies of film piracy illustrate the problem of criminal-and perhaps terrorist-groups using this new high-payoff, low-risk way to fund their activities. Cooperation among law enforcement and governments worldwide is needed to combat intellectual-property theft, which threatens the global information economy, public safety, and national security

"When most people think of pirates, they think of buccaneers sailing the seas in search of treasure. However, piracy has changed over time, and many of today's most fearsome pirates work behind computer screens. Readers will be captivated by this exciting look at the history of piracy--from the legendary Blackbeard to the pirates who still hijack ships today, as well as the kinds of piracy unique to the digital age. Their reading experience is heightened through the use of relevant primary sources, annotated quotes, detailed sidebars, and a thoroughly researched timeline of piracy" --

Introduction : property, place, and piracy / Martin Fredriksson & James Arvanitakis -- On decolonising our thinking and cultural exchange / Ingrid Matthews -- Commons, piracy, and property : crisis, conflict and resistance / James Arvanitakis & Martin Fredriksson -- Property, sovereignty, piracy, and the commons : early modern enclosure and the foundation of the state / Sean Johnson Andrews -- Unreal property : anarchism, anthropology, and alchemy / Jonathan Paul Marshall & Francesca da Rimini -- Piratical constructions of humanity : innocence, property, and the human-nature divide / Sonja Schillings -- Mobility in early modern Anglo-American accounts of piracy / Alexandra Ganser -- Compensation in the absence of punishment : rethinking Somali piracy as a form of maritime xeer / Brittany Gilmer -- Commodification of country : an Australian case study in community resistance to mining / Ingrid Matthews -- Privateering on the cosmic frontier? mining celestial bodies and the "newspace" quest for private property in outer space / Matthew Johnson -- "The ancestry land": China's pursuit of dominance in the South China Sea / Jingdong Yuan -- Nuclear testing and the "Terra Nullius Doctrine": from life sciences to life writing / Mita Banerjee -- From biopiracy to bioprospecting : negotiating the limits of propertization / Martin Fredriksson -- Gated housing hierarchy / Franklin Obeng-Odoom -- Pirate places in Bangkok : IPRS, vendors, and urban order / Duncan McDuie-re & Daniel F. Robinson -- The real Gruen transfer : enclosing the right to the city / James Arvanitakis & Spike Boydell -- Epilogue / James Arvanitakis & Martin Fredriksson

"A collection of texts that takes a broad perspective on digital piracy and attempts to capture the multidimensional impacts of digital piracy on capitalist society today"--