Illegal downloading of copyright materials by end-users had its heyday in the early 2000s, with music, television, and …

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 …

This chapter explores IP protectability of what may be broadly termed “folk music,” though, that is a term fraught with … music. Traditional folk music and, more generally, traditional knowledge and expression (TKE) are not generally protectable … musical works, including in particular folk music broadly understood to provide economic and other benefits to originators and …

techniques in a number of litigation matters involving prominent record labels, music publishers, performers, and songwriters …

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

In case of digital goods such like music, intellectual property rights are typically not exerted by the creators …

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 …

In a recent and unpublished study — Empirical Copyright: A Case Study of File Sharing and Music Output — Tulane … University Law Professor Glynn Lunney, Jr., concludes that “file sharing has not reduced the creation of new original music.” The … claim is based on the correlation of music sales over time to the appearance of “new artists”, narrowly defined, appearing …