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Balazs Bodo

Non-Residential Fellow

Bodó Balázs (1975), economist, assistant lecturer, researcher at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Sociology and Communications, Center for Media Research and Education. He was a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at Stanford Law School in 2006/7.He is a Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford. He is the project lead for Creative Commons Hungary and a member of the National Copyright Expert Group.His academic interests include copyright and economics, piracy, media regulation, peer-to-peer communities, underground libraries, digital archives. He has advised several public and private institutions on development projects of digital archives, content distribution, online communities, business development.

Recent articles

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Media Piracy in Emerging Economies

Media Piracy in Emerging Economies is a new, comprehensive study on the impact and role of piracy on/in some of the biggest developing countries: Brazil, Russia…

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Lessig joins RIAA board of directors

Here are some of the April Fool's news from the file-sharing universe. The scary thing is, that they are (or should be) all real alternatives, and each and…

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Pirates and Hollywood

I am researching for my talk to be delivered to the International Intellectual Property Program at Chicago-Kent Law School. This is how I have found what I bel…

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It’s not the technology, stupid

I had an AHAAA moment last night reading Martha Woodmansee’s „ The Author, Art, and the Market”. She writes „As my sketch of writers’ struggles suggests, eighte…

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Copynorms

In the last few weeks I bumped into several articles addressing the question why people feel OK to up- and download mp3s despite all the laws and legal threats,…

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www.warsystems.hu

Please see my research blog at www.warsystems.hu, where i post news clipping from the world of intellectual property and file-sharing daily.…