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Matthew Rimmer

Selected Works

2001

Intellectual Property and Information Technology

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The Pirate Bazaar: The Social Life Of Copyright Law, Matthew Rimmer Feb 2001

The Pirate Bazaar: The Social Life Of Copyright Law, Matthew Rimmer

Matthew Rimmer

This thesis provides a cultural history of Australian copyright law and related artistic controversies. It examines a number of disputes over authorship, collaboration, and appropriation across a variety of cultural fields. It considers legal controversies over the plagiarism of texts, the defacing of paintings, the sampling of musical works, the ownership of plays, the co-operation between film-makers, the sharing of MP3 files on the Internet, and the appropriation of Indigenous culture. Such narratives and stories relate to a broad range of works and subject matter that are protected by copyright law.This study offers an archive of oral histories and narratives …

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Napster: Infinite Digital Jukebox Or Pirate Bazaar?, Matthew Rimmer Jan 2001

Napster: Infinite Digital Jukebox Or Pirate Bazaar?, Matthew Rimmer

Matthew Rimmer

This paper considers the copyright litigation over the file-sharing program, Napster. The first section examines the culture of collecting at work in Napster. The next part examines the litigation by the major record companies and Metallica against Napster. The final section considers the future of file-sharing, looking at alternatives to Napster, such as Filetopia, Freenet, Gnutella, MP3board.com and streaming media.

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