The fact that various online music distribution (OMD) models have been the source of significant consternation for the … recorded music industry (RMI) is well-documented. The hostile aspects of OMD-RMI interaction have driven public debate …

initiatives in the on-line music field aimed at encouraging more Community-wide collective licensing …

The music industry is facing the development of online P2P networks, direct download services and other forms of … digital piracy, while at the same time the format and promotion of pre-recorded music are undergoing major transformations …. The chapter is organized as follows. First, I analyze how digital piracy and digital music distribution are changing the …

Many view the music industry’s transition to an online distribution based business model as having been inevitable … since Napster first made consumers aware of the ease with which they could access vast amounts of music online. Others … insist the average listener’s growing familiarity with online music download services combined with the recent integration of …

In January 2012, Capitol Records (a label of EMI Music) sued ReDigi (a secondhand marketplace for digital music files …) for copyright infringement. This paper discusses the legal framework of the resale of digital music files and analyzes the … digital music should be permissible as a matter of policy. It is argued that ReDigi should prevail in court since no copying …

and music forming part of one’s digital library should be regarded as virtual property with accompanying property rights …

strategies for digital music. Our results show that tiered pricing coupled with reduced album pricing increases revenue to the …

. This paper explores these points using information provided by PRS for Music, the UK’s collecting society managing musical … digitization of music and management of musical rights. This paper suggests that collaborative concentration may be preferable to …

sharing and the parallel fall in music industry revenue as a natural experiment in radically reduced copyright protection … analysis, I show that the sharp decline in music industry revenue that paralleled the rise of file sharing was associated … file sharing began was associated with a net increase in the number of new hit songs, ceteris paribus. Thus, for the music …

recent technological changes, on balance, would affect the flow of new music products. This chapter reviews the emerging … evidence on the quality and service flow of new recorded music products since Napster. …