Metaphors And Norms: Understanding Copyright Law In A Digital Society

Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Abstract......Page 14
Part I – The book and the problem......Page 16
1. Introduction. Conceptual battles in a digital age......Page 18
Why copyright is of such vital interest......Page 19
The gap (and the gap problem)......Page 22
Metaphors we legislate by......Page 25
Metaphors and law......Page 26
Conceptions and law......Page 27
Detecting power through legal metaphors......Page 28
Why Sweden is of interest......Page 30
Sociology of law and norm research......Page 31
The four parts of the thesis......Page 32
Research purpose and questions......Page 33
An epistemological stance......Page 35
Delimitations of this thesis......Page 36
Relationship to social constructionism......Page 37
Relationship to semiotics......Page 38
Article I: Law, deviation and paradigmatic change: copyright and its metaphors......Page 39
Article II: Compliance or obscurity? Online anonymity as a consequence of fighting unauthorised file-sharing......Page 40
Article IV: Intellectual Property Law Compliance in Europe: Illegal File sharing and the Role of Social Norms......Page 41
3. Copyright regulation......Page 44
European copyright......Page 47
Swedish copyright......Page 48
Part II – Theory and method......Page 50
4. Why metaphors and conceptions matter to the study of norms: a theoretical bridge......Page 52
Norms, metaphors and conceptions......Page 53
Defining norms from three essential attributes......Page 54
Imperativeness......Page 55
Social reproduction......Page 57
Perception of expectations......Page 58
5. Metaphors and conceptions......Page 60
Figurative metaphors and metaphor clusters......Page 61
Skeumorphs in the non-digital/digital divide......Page 63
Metaphors as embodied......Page 65
Conceptions......Page 66
The difference between translatability and understanding......Page 68
An epistemological stance on metaphors and conceptions......Page 69
A model for legal metaphor analysis......Page 71
Time: the transition model......Page 72
Related metaphors in and outside law: the cluster model......Page 73
6. Method......Page 76
Studying law......Page 77
Legal data in the thesis......Page 78
Studying social norms......Page 80
The SNS Model......Page 81
Balancing self-evaluation......Page 82
Strengths and weaknesses of the SNS Model......Page 83
Studying metaphors in order to reveal conceptions......Page 84
Choosing metaphors by their influence......Page 85
Metaphor in legal v. social norms......Page 86
Part III – Results and analysis......Page 90
7. The primary results of the articles......Page 92
The European regulatory trend in copyright when facing the digital challenge......Page 93
The social norms corresponding to copyright......Page 94
Copyright and its metaphors......Page 95
Reproduction and distribution of copies......Page 96
Theft......Page 97
Piracy......Page 98
8. Conceptions in Copyright......Page 100
The skeumorph transition of copyright......Page 102
Copyrighted content as tangible and material objects......Page 103
Metaphor clusters of property......Page 104
Copyright as a “system of incentives”......Page 105
The solitary genius v. the principle of continuity......Page 106
Orphan works......Page 112
Generativity for the committed: (encryption) code as law......Page 114
A pattern-changing non-solution?......Page 115
Generativity for law enforcement: monitoring the masses......Page 116
Generativity for the industry: streaming in gated communities......Page 118
10. A battle of conceptions in legal and social change......Page 120
The lag of the law from a metaphor and conception perspective......Page 122
A battle of conceptions......Page 124
The slow movement of conceptions, and embodiment as an explanation for change......Page 125
11. Conclusions......Page 128
Path dependence of copyright law......Page 129
Social norms of copyright......Page 130
Conceptions in copyright......Page 131
A suggested theoretical contribution......Page 132
Legal and social change......Page 134
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Part IV – The articles......Page 150
Article I: Law, deviation and paradigmatic change: Copyright and its metaphors......Page 152
Article II: Compliance or obscurity? Online anonymity as a consequence of fighting unauthorised file-sharing......Page 176
Article III: The Path Dependence of European Copyright......Page 208
Article IV: Intellectual Property Law Compliance in Europe: Illegal File sharing and the Role of Social Norms......Page 234