[ecrea] CFP for a forthcoming Italian book on digital piracy (March 2013)

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Call for Papers
Piracy Effect
Edited by Roberto Braga and Giovanni Caruso
Digital piracy is a very unpredictable phenomenon. It’s quite hard to 
keep its power under control and to identify its legal, technological 
and social implications and repercussions.

After Napster success, P2P traffic has grown exponentially up to recent 
years when it has shown a constant decrease compared to total Internet 
traffic. This reduction is related to the large market penetration of 
real time entertainment services, cyberlockers and to the steady and 
pervasive strengthening of legal distribution platforms.

Economic literature on piracy effects doesn’t have a shared and clear 
interpretation of the phenomenon and of its effects on cultural 
industries. Furthermore, the recent shut down of Library.nu and 
Megaupload has superficially affected illegal download and streaming, 
but, as a result, it has fed the conflict between media industries 
lobbies and large amount of Internet users and consumers.

Digital piracy has changed deeply after the wide diffusion of 
video-sharing platform like YouTube, implying new forms of violation of 
copyright. In this multifaceted scenario users have deeply transformed 
their media consumption behaviors, new forms of entertainment have 
raised and distribution platforms and the related business models are 
continuously reinventing themselves .
The main aim of the book Piracy Effect is to investigate the complexity 
of digital piracy focusing on its impact on the changing relationship 
between production, distribution and consumption of cultural products.

Here some key topics we would like to be investigated by contributors – 
although we encourage the submission of proposals on other subjects that 
could better explore digital piracy:

* Piracy and business models: piracy has often been depicted as a 
consequence of cultural industries’ lacks and failing. Which is the 
reply to piracy pervasiveness in terms of innovative business and 
production models? Which are the media industry local and global 
implications related to piracy fighting?
* Piracy and cultural behaviors: piracy cannot be considered only as an 
answer to market inadequacy and malfunction. Piracy plays an important 
role in defining forms of cultural criticism. How this forms of 
resistance to cultural industries show up and how they relate to 
cultural industries strategies and production patterns?
* Piracy and related economies: is digital piracy able to create new 
markets capable to compete with the traditional ones? How gift economy, 
sharing economy, affective economy are related to illegal file-sharing 
and are able to maintain a parallel cultural production and 
distribution? How these parallel economies are resetting the entire 
media ecosystem?

Potential contributors can send a 300-500 words abstract together with a 
brief bio by July 10th 2012 to (roberto.braga /at/ gmail.com) and (nrgiga /at/ gmail.com)

Communications of acceptance will be sent by July 30th 2012
The final paper is due by November 30th 2012
Papers can be in Italian or English but the book will be published in 
Italian. Curators will take care of translations from English to 
Italian. On author’s request, English version of the papers will be 
published on a dedicated site.

The final book would be published on March 2013


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