Copyright Infringement in the Market for Digital Images
研究了数字图像市场中版权侵权的特点,发现许多侵权是无意的,用户可能不知道自己的使用侵权或缺乏许可价格信息,因此非价格因素对侵权和解的影响比价格更大。
Digital technologies for sharing creative goods create new opportunities for copyright infringement and challenge established enforcement methods. We establish several important facts about the nature of copyright infringement and efforts to settle past infringing use in the market for digital images. Infringement in this, and many other markets, is often uninformed: users may be unaware that their use infringes, and may lack information about the price of a license. The uninformed nature of infringement implies that price may not be the primary factor in the decision to settle past use; in contrast, non-price factors may significantly affect settlement outcomes.