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copia privată în era digital
Private copying in the digital age

Author(s): Paul Popovici
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: Asociaţia Ştiinţifică de Dreptul Proprietăţii Intelectuale
Keywords: private copy; digital era; financing books & culture.

Summary/Abstract: The possibility of unauthorized copying due to the present technological development has become nowadays, part from being seen as an ordinary act, a real testing of the specific legislation. Yet, a too drastical limitation of this action can have as an effect a decrease in people’s degree of being informed and culturally aware, and this consequence is not to the advantage of society. Education is based on the wider access to intellectual resources and it can indirectly generate an increase of the purchasing power and, implicitly, an enlargement of the copyright market zone. The measures to be taken can have such specific features that any global reglementation might be almost improbable. Subsidizing of books publishing (and not only) constitutes a leading factor towards the achieving of a desired cultural accessibility, but also towards the abandoning of the pirate-copy done by people with very limited material resources.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 28-32
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Romanian