Dr. Matthew David (the University of Liverpool, UK) delivered a talk within the frameworks of the Inderdisciplinary seminar of the Department of Political science and Sociology.
A lecture is devoted to the traditional opposition between the artist’s striving for self-promotion and the pursuit of decent compensation. The development of file-exchange systems has led to increased economic conflict between the culture from which the artist draws material, and the ownership claims of separate groups to artistic expressions common to all cultures. Studies have shown that with the development of piracy and the free exchange of artistic material, the infringement of traditional copyright sometimes occurs only for the benefit of artists with additional means for advertising in order to increase sales of their “live work.”