The author first highlights the rationale of copyright collective licensing as well as the different types of … initiatives in the on-line music field aimed at encouraging more Community-wide collective licensing …

sharing and the parallel fall in music industry revenue as a natural experiment in radically reduced copyright protection …In copyright, we are guided by a simple intuition: More revenue leads to more original works. But the relationship … between revenue and creative output is not so simple. Broadening copyright in order to increase the revenue associated with …

Since the launch of the iTunes Music Store in the US in 2003 and in much of Europe in the following years, music trade …. Despite substantial growth in availability, choice sets have not converged across countries; and observers point to copyright …-related transaction costs as an obstacle to greater availability. Policy makers are now contemplating various copyright reforms that could …

content. For popular and technological reasons, the music industry has become the first major content industry to face the … legal issues surrounding the rapid and widespread distribution of digital music. This article attempts to summarize the …

Copyright protection grants creators monopolies – with their attendant harms – in order to provide incentives for … continued creation. File sharing, which exploded with Napster’s appearance in 1999, effectively weakened copyright protection … copyright protection, other innovations have reduced the costs of production, promotion, and distribution, making it unclear how …

The amount of piracy in the streaming and static digital content in general and the music industry in specific is … cross platforms. The system addresses the need to lowering the barriers of entry for music bands, content reconciliation for …