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- Stardom, Peer-to-Peer and the Socially Optimal Distribution of Music
- Music industry is facing the music now. Big stakeholders try very hard to maintain their positions while other players see opportunities in the advent of peer-to-peer networks. Music, as a kind of representative information good, deserves its economic properties to be examined and made explicit. Using the familiar Hotelling (1929)...
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- Apple, Amazon, and the Music Industry -- Same Old Tune?
- The music industry is often excoriated for viewing electronic downloads as enemy rather than opportunity. It has a hate-love relationship with Apple, creator of the iPod and iTunes. It has a love-hate relationship with its own artists such as Prince who are trying to use digital to break the old...
- Blog posts 2008-01-18
- BNET Daily Dispatch: Dell, Bausch & Lomb, Amazon, and Blackstone
- The New York State Attorney General has sued Dell over consumer complaints against the computer maker. The suit contends that Dell engaged in deceptive financing practices by misleading customers with enticing financing offers that carry many restrictions. The Attorney General's office wants an injunction against Dell's practices and...
- Blog posts 2007-05-16
- An Economist's Guide to Digital Music
- This guide discusses the impact of digitalization on the music industry. It relies on market and survey data at the international level as well as expert statements from the industry. The guide investigates the developments in legal and technological protection of digital music and describes new business models as well...
- White papers 2004-11-01
- The Move to Artist-Led Online Music Distribution: Explaining Structural Changes in the Digital Music Market
- This paper proposes a model for understanding the transformation of the market structure in the recorded music industry value chain due to new forms of digital distribution. It takes into account the traditional music industry's value chain and distribution network, and the product characteristics of digital music as they relate...
- White papers 2004-09-12
- British Music Rights Comments in Preparation of the DTI Trade and Investment White Paper
- The music industry is a British economic success story contributing approximately £5 billion per annum to the UK economy. Another factor, though more difficult to quantify, are the cultural benefits that the British music industry provides: - it widely promotes the UK in an international context and encourages both further...
- White papers 2004-04-16
- Online Music Distribution: A New Era?
- The paper deals with the monitoring of a new development in the music industry: digital music, also known as online music because it relies on the Internet for its distribution (i.e., the consumer downloads a digital music file, or MP3 file, from the Web). Less than a decade later, digital...
- White papers 2003-12-02
- Amnesty for Music File Sharing Is a Sham
- The paper discusses about the copyright issues in music industry. The RIAA has proposed as its "solution" to file sharing: an "amnesty" for file-sharers. Just delete the MP3s you've downloaded, shared those CD-R copies, confess your guilt and, in return, the most change-resistant companies in the nation will give you...
- White papers 2003-09-26
- Rock -n- Roll Aint Noise Pollution
- This discussion paper focuses on the problems associated with live music venues since these are so vital to the continued health of local music industry. Melbourne has an excellent music industry, underpinned by a vibrant and diverse live music culture. Bands and performers play throughout the metropolitan area every night...
- White papers 2003-07-21
- Profiting From Sound: A Systems Approach to the Dynamics of the Nordic Music Industry
- The popular music industry is a growing industry and an important contributor to national economies. On the basis of the work done by the participants in this project, it appears that there are a variety of areas in which both public sector and private sector actors can help the industry...
- White papers 2003-03-01
- A Review of the Economic Properties of Music Distribution
- Music industry is "facing the music" now. Big stakeholders try very hard to maintain their positions while other players see opportunities in the advent of peer to- peer networks. Music, as a kind of representative information good, deserves its economic properties to be examined and made explicit. This paper reviews...
- White papers 2002-11-15
- Innovation?: The Fuzzy Case of Pop Music Industry
- This paper deals with the concept of innovation, using the music industry as an illustration. The paper looks both at innovations within the industry as such; technological and organizational changes but also at the tension between creativity and innovation as novelty. More precisely, by outlining Schumpeter's notion of innovation and...
- White papers 2002-10-01
- Profile of the European Music Sector
- The European music industry is facing difficult times. World sales of recorded music for 2001 fell by 8.9% in value and by 6.8% in units. Music traditionally has not attracted much attention at political level. The industry has developed along the rules of the free market economy with little or...
- White papers 2002-05-22
- Music Distribution in the Internet
- The paper highlights that in order to understand the present and future of the music industry in the Internet, it is very important to focus first on the situation the music industry is right now in the "real world". The standard used to carry the music is the CD, a...
- White papers 2002-04-30
- Impact and Perspectives of Electronic Commerce (IPEC): The Music Industry in the Netherlands
- This report is about change in music industry. The Internet is leading to a redefinition of business models and a reconfiguration of relationships within as well as between sectors. The prospect of e-commerce and on-line delivery place the music industry in the vanguard of this change. The central players in...
- White papers 2002-03-07
- Digital Music Distribution
- The recorded music industry is essentially a creation of the 20th century, starting soon after the invention of the first recorded sounds. Computer technology and the seemingly free distribution of music through so-called "peer-to-peer" systems such as Napster and its descendents threaten to destroy this industry, or at the very...
- White papers 2002-03-03
- Business as Usual or a Real Paradigm Shift? The Music Industry's Response to E-Commerce Technology and Ideology
- Digital production and distribution technology, in theory, provide powerful opportunities for creators and performers of musical works to reach a potential global audience without dependence on the series of intermediaries that are so typical of the established music industry. This paper looks at the resilient nature of the established music...
- White papers 2001-07-23
- Copyrights, Competition and Development: The Case of the Music Industry
- This paper analyses the relationship between the copyright and income generation in the audiovisual sector, in particular music, and argues that the appropriate copyright administration is essential in creating the conditions for a viable music industry in developing countries. However, an effective copyright regime is not, by itself, sufficient to...
- White papers 2000-01-01
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- ASG
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] FIVE YEARS AFTER their first release on Volcom Entertainment, ASG's brought down the hammer with Win Us Over, the bands fourth album and most dynamic to date. Never succumbing to the popular masses, this band has stuck to their guns and this album should serve as...
- Articles 2008-07-01
- Wipe out
- Festivities ran at an all-time high as the Log Shop in Pacifica unveiled their new, 60-foot wide "mini"-ramp. Raven Tershay and other NorCal notables were so inspired by the new Skatelite monstrosity that a seven-hour shred clinic ensued. Mr Fab and the Hubba crew held down the musical machinations as...
- Articles 2008-07-01
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