[Infowarrior] - SSRC: The Copy Culture Survey: Infringement and Enforcement in the US

[Richard Forno]

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The Copy Culture Survey: Infringement and Enforcement in the US

Posted on November 15, 2011 by karaganis
COPY CULTURE: INFRINGEMENT AND ENFORCEMENT IN THE U.S.  (PDF)

The U.S. House of Representatives is now debating the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)—the counterpart to the Senate’s PROTECT IP Act.  If passed, the bill will expand criminal penalties for copyright infringement and give the government (and private parties) new powers to block access to websites accused of facilitating infringement.

The bill is the latest in a series of efforts to strengthen copyright enforcement online. Earlier this year, Internet Service Providers and the film and record industries reached an agreement to expand the private policing of online infringement.  Search engines, social networking platforms, cloud storage providers, universities, and other institutions face growing pressure to monitor and filter Internet activity.

This research note is an effort to bring American public opinion to bear on this vital conversation. The note excerpts a forthcoming survey-based study called Copy Culture in the U.S. and Germany. Drawing on results from the U.S. portion of the survey, it explores what Americans do with digital media, what they want to do, and how they reconcile their attitudes and values with different policies and proposals to enforce copyright online.

The Copy Culture survey was sponsored by The American Assembly, with support from a research award from Google.  The content of the survey and its findings are solely the responsibility of the researchers.  The U.S. survey was conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International. The results are based on interviews on landline and cellular telephones conducted in English with 2,303 adults age 18 or older living in the continental United States from August 1-31, 2011. For results based on the entire sample, the margin of error is plus or minus 2 percentage points.

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http://piracy.ssrc.org/the-copy-culture-survey-infringement-and-enforcement-in-the-us/


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