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Is the Devil in the Data? A Literature Review of Piracy Around the World
Author(s) -
Kariithi Nixon K.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the journal of world intellectual property
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.334
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1747-1796
pISSN - 1422-2213
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-1796.2010.00412.x
Subject(s) - scope (computer science) , alliance , law and economics , software , political science , data science , positive economics , business , sociology , law , economics , computer science , programming language
This article examines the scholarly literature pertaining to music, film and software piracy around the world, with special attention to data sources, research scope and general findings. The article finds that the conspicuous absence of methodologies utilizing critical theory in this broad literature has constricted the world view of piracy, resulting in monolithic explanations of the causes and correlates of piracy. It further identifies systematic biases relating to the unjustified use of data published by the industry watchdog Business Software Alliance (BSA).