ABSTRACT

This article provides an ethical analysis of the moral conflict over access to premium audio-visual online content, which is currently regulated by geo-blocking in the domain of digital film distribution. We first identify the stakeholders of this conflict, which are the rights holders on the one hand – that is, creators, producers and distributors of audio-visual content – and the consumers of audio-visual content on the other. We also identify their interests, moral rights and moral intuitions based on interviews with representatives of the interested parties and by conducting an analysis of their position papers on the Digital Single Market strategy initiatives presented by the European Commission in the years 2015 to 2018. The moral rights and legitimate interests of stakeholders are then balanced and specified. We propose four ethical principles that set out the conditions under which the geo-blocking of audio-visual content is either ethically justified or unjustified.

摘要

本文提供了对访问优质视听在线内容的道德冲突的伦理分析，目前在数字电影发行领域受到地理封锁的监管。我们首先确定了这场冲突的利益相关者，一方面是权利人，即视听内容的创作者、制作者和分发者，另一方面是视听内容的消费者。我们还根据对相关方代表的采访以及对他们对欧盟委员会在 2015 年至 2018 年提出的数字单一市场战略举措的立场文件进行分析，确定他们的利益、道德权利和道德直觉。然后平衡和明确利益相关者的权利和合法利益。