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Reflecting on the digit(al)isation of music
by David Beer
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_2/beer/
Abstract:
This paper is a collection of notes written in response to the main themes
contained in Martin Kretschmer's essay "Artists' earnings and copyright: A
review of British and German music industry data in the context of digital
technologies" (2005), which was published recently in First Monday. These
notes are intended to focus briefly on the exploration of these themes with
the intention of generating and developing questions that may open doors for
future study. The objective of this piece is not the review of Kretschmer's
essay; rather it is an attempt to probe, to examine, and to question its
findings and guiding themes. These notes, therefore, are left as a set of open
suggestions rather than defining statements. It is hoped that this fits with
the emergent and yet to be embedded field of study to which they relate.
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 08:56:46 -0500
From: "Diane M. Zorich" <[email protected]>
Subject: IP SIG: Artists earning and copyright in the context of digital
technologies
An interesting article from First Monday
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_1/kretschmer/index.html
Artists' earnings and copyright: A review of British and German music industry data in the context of digital technologies
Abstract: Digital technologies are often said (1) to enable a qualitatively new engagement with already existing cultural materials (for example through sampling and adaptation); and, (2) to offer a new disintermediated distribution channel to the creator. A review of secondary data on music artists' earnings and eight in-depth interviews conducted in 2003-04 in Britain and Germany indicate that both ambitions have remained largely unfulfilled. The article discusses to what extent the structure of copyright law is to blame, and sets out a research agenda.
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