This paper analyzes the application of crowdfunding to finance the production of music recordings. The analysis is based, albeit not only, on a case study of a crowdfunding platform located in Poland (MegaTotal). The case study illustrates how pooling contributions of crowdfunders and...

During the last thirty years Eastern Europe has been a place of radical political, economic, and social transformation, and these changes have affected the cultural industries of its countries. This volume consists of twelve chapters by leading international researchers. Stories are documented...

This article analyzes the attitudes of Polish recording industry towards selling music online and discuses reasons for popularity of traditional music business model among Polish small and medium record labels. Although Polish record labels are active in using the Internet to distribute and...

This report has been commissioned by The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage to analyze the development of the digital music market in Poland. In particular, the study analyzes how the collective copyright management reform proposed by the European Commission will affect the digital music...

This article presents the results of research on netlabels (also called virtual record labels, web labels or MP3 labels) which promote and distribute free music over the Internet. Music distributed by netlabels is released under Creative Commons licenses, which means that it can be download free...

The main aim of the paper is economic analysis of the legislation which sets language quotas for music radio stations in Poland. The first part of the paper briefly characterizes the economic properties of radio. The second section presents the complex relationship between the radio and the...

For a few years crowdfunding has been successfully employed to finance independent artists. Usually artists ask for donations to finance release of an album or a tour. This paper concentrates on different use of crowdfunding: the idea that whole crowdfunding platform could operate as an...

This paper presents the phenomenon of crowdfunding — one of the newest approaches to financing the production of cultural works. While being a rather revolutionary alternative to traditional publishers, record labels, and other cultural producers, crowdfunding poses several interesting...