The Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam hosts 2015 IViR Symposium
On Alternative Compensation Systems for Digital Copyright July 11, 2015.
A multidisciplinary research group at IViR has spent the last two years conducting a large-scale empirical study of Alternative Compensation Systems (ACS), which, for a small monthly fee would authorize non-commercial online uses by individuals, including the downloading and sharing of protected works (such as music, films, and books), while compensating rights holders.
Our results suggest that consumers are dissatisfied with the currently available legal access channels, and consequently, different forms of ACS are supported by the majority of the Dutch population. Our results show that an ACS, if implemented, would provide extra revenues to music and audio-visual rights holders as compared to the status quo. Our project also proved that it is possible to include lay people in highly complex copyright policy decisions.
The conference presents the study’s results.
