Mukesh Dosad has posted Art, Access, and Ethics: The IPR vs. Piracy Debate on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
This paper delves in moral dilemma of IP laws and Piracy. How they both need to exist and what need to exist more is the question that haunts and must haunt us because there is no real answer to it but decision is to be in this indecisive moment decision between culture or individual. IPR (Intellectual Property Rights), protects creation of human mind from invention to designs and everything in between whether stories, poetries, brand. It protects the very right of its creator given exclusively them for a set period of time. Whereas, piracy is it very antithesis it is, the act of illegally copying books, tapes, videos etc. IPR tries to protect the right of creator and creation from piracy. Piracy though the very opposite of IPR, exist due to this ever-increasing gap between people of different classes. Culture in every sense of the word must not exist for only those who can subscribe or avail for such but also those who can't, this very disposition in society leads to this "evil that must exist" kind off idea of piracy. This paper goes into this very discussion, critically analyses and understands how can we strengthen IP laws against increasing Piracy, also how to decrease piracy overtime by minimizing such ever-increasing gap between Bourgeoisie and Proletariat, finding a limbo between rights of creator and rights of society.
