Edwards, L, Klein, B, Lee, D orcid.org/0000-0002-9186-2401 et al. (2 more authors) (2015) Discourse, justification and critique: towards a legitimate digital copyright regime? International Journal of Cultural Policy, 21 (1). pp. 60-77. ISSN 1028-6632
Abstract
Digitization and the internet have posed an acute economic challenge to rights holders in the cultural industries. Faced with a threat to their form of capital accumulation from copyright infringement, rights holders have used discourse strategically in order to try and legitimate and strengthen their position in the digital copyright debate with governments and media users. In so doing, they have appealed to general justificatory principles – about what is good, right, and just – that provide some scope for opposition and critique, as other groups contest their interpretation of these principles and the evidence used to support them. In this article, we address the relative lack of academic attention paid to the role of discourse in copyright debates by analysing user-directed marketing campaigns and submissions to UK government policy consultations. We show how legitimacy claims are justified and critiqued, and conclude that amid these debates rests some hope of achieving a more legitimate policy resolution to the copyright wars – or at least the possibility of beginning a more constructive dialogue.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2014 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The moral rights of the named author(s) have been asserted. |
Keywords: | copyright policy, discourse, legitimacy, sociology of justification, Norman Fairclough, Luc Boltanski |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Media & Communication (Leeds) The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 08 Oct 2015 15:38 |
Last Modified: | 01 Dec 2020 12:15 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2013.874421 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/10286632.2013.874421 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:89899 |