ABSTRACT
This introduction presents the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores the theoretical framework of the research, expanding upon the central notions of networks of power. It discusses in more detail the territorial nature of digital music services and demonstrating the relative inability of the Court of Justice of the European Union to successfully remove territorial restrictions on the provision of digital music services in the EU. The book explains the networks of power analysis, explaining the development of discourses concerning the threat posed by copyright infringement, and the use of this discourse as a driver of copyright policy. Finally it focuses on the possibility of transforming the networks of power in copyright law and policy and concludes by discussing that if fundamental change to copyright is desired, resistance to the current framing and direction of copyright law is possible, so long as copyright is transformed into an issue of high political salience.
