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Research: ‘3-strike’
schemes don’t work
research paper from an
Australian academic has
concluded that ‘three strikes’
or graduated response
laws designed to
reduce Internet-based
copyright infringement
are by and large ineffective and do not
direct users towards
legitimate sources of
content.
The study - Evaluating
Graduated Response – by
Rebecca Giblin at the
Monash University Faculty
of Law, notes that it has
been more than three years since the first
countries began implementing ‘graduated
responses’, requiring ISPs to take a range
of measures to police their users’ copyright infringements. Graduated responses
now exist in a range of forms in seven
jurisdictions. Right-holders describe them
as ‘successful’ and ‘effective’ and are
agitating for their further international
roll-out. But what is the evidence in support of these claims, asks Giblin.
After providing a detailed snapshot of
the structure and application of graduated response schemes in France, New
Zealand, Taiwan, South Korea, the UK,
Ireland and the US, the paper synthesises the available evidence regarding the
efficacy of the various arrangements,
and then evaluates the extent to which
they are actually achieving the copyright
law’s aims. As the work acknowledges, it
is impossible to identify any one unify-
ing target or rationale. Accordingly, the
paper evaluates the extent to which the
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