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Combat with Piracy and International Legal Responsibility

open access: yesМосковский журнал международного права, 2016
Significant damage is caused to the world economy by piracy. And the critical “piracy situation” in the Gulf of Guinea in this relation is the clearest example. The successful solution of the long piracy crisis in the region of Somalia (in 2015 no piracy
E. S. Anyanova
doaj   +1 more source

‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
wiley   +1 more source

Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
wiley   +1 more source

Back to software "profitable piracy": the role of information diffusion [PDF]

open access: yes
Can software piracy be profitable for a software editor? We tackle this issue in a simple model where software is an experience good and where the potential users can choose to adopt or pirate software or to delay their adoption. In that context, we show
Alexandra Rufini   +2 more
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The rising tide of piracy: the influence of social roles, risks and norms on illegal consumption

open access: yesFrontiers in Behavioral Economics
Digital piracy, including unauthorized access to entertainment content, continues to rise, yet traditional deterrence messages often fail. Research shows that men tend to pirate more than women, but it remains unclear whether gendered social factors ...
Kate M. Whitman, Joe Cox
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The Ties That Rhyme: Duality in Symbolic and Structural Networks of Grime Music

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Do birds of a feather really sing together? Musicians face two competing pressures in the pursuit of success: conforming to genre norms to meet audience expectations and distinguishing themselves to attract the attention of listeners. These opposing logics may shape how artists choose their collaborators.
Tom R. Leppard, Andrew P. Davis
wiley   +1 more source

Network Externality and Commercial Software Piracy [PDF]

open access: yes
Contrary to the earlier findings under end-users piracy where the existence of strong network externality was shown to be a reason for allowing limited piracy, we find when the piracy is commercial in nature the optimal policy for the original software ...
Sougata Poddar
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SAMUDRA Report No. 62, July 2012 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Contents: Customary Rights in South Africa. Artisanal Fishworkers of Brazil. US Waterfronts. Sea Piracy in Nigeria. Civil Society Guidelines on SSF.

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Affordances, dread, and online fraud: Exploring and advancing social learning theory in online contexts

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract We investigate how the affordances of an online context shape the processes of social learning. Using a dataset of more than 11,000 posts from the fraud subdread on the dark web forum Dread, we examine how affordances of platform governance, connectivity, anonymity, invisibility, asynchronicity, and limited oversight influence the components ...
Fangzhou Wang, Timothy Dickinson
wiley   +1 more source

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