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Saving The Spotify Revolution: Recalibrating The Power Imbalance In Digital Copyright, Jordan Teague
Saving The Spotify Revolution: Recalibrating The Power Imbalance In Digital Copyright, Jordan Teague
Jordan Teague
Many believed that Spotify would revolutionize the music industry, offering a legal alternative to file sharing that compensates musicians for use of their digital music. Why, then, have artists been abandoning the Spotify revolution in droves? Because the revolution has a dark side. Since Spotify is part-owned by the major labels, it has a serious conflict of interest with independent artists. Spotify’s lack of transparency about its financial flows gives musicians further reason to suspect whether the service has their interests in mind, particularly in light of the microscopic royalties that Spotify has paid out to artists to date. This …
System Overload: Is The Digital Music Age Making Consumers Yearned For Physical And Innovative Music Products?, Daniela Oliva
System Overload: Is The Digital Music Age Making Consumers Yearned For Physical And Innovative Music Products?, Daniela Oliva
Daniela Oliva
This article discusses problems inherent in digital music formats that have affected the music industry, consumers and musicians. Innovative digital products and unique physical music products can help the music industry mitigate damages and recapture some of the profit lost to illegal file sharing.
How ‘Choruss’ Can Turn Into A Cacophony: The Record Industry’S Stranglehold On The Future Of Music Business, Andrey Spektor
How ‘Choruss’ Can Turn Into A Cacophony: The Record Industry’S Stranglehold On The Future Of Music Business, Andrey Spektor
Andrey Spektor
March of 2009 was a significant month for shaping the battles for the upcoming year. First, the mastermind of the RIAA’s new plan to legalize peer-to-peer file sharing, Jim Giffin, finally gave a presentation about Choruss—an independent entity that will be unveiled in the Fall of 2009. Choruss will aggregate licenses from major record labels and sell them to universities and other internet service providers. The cost would be passed on to users, who would in turn have an all-you-can-download access to music. While Choruss would obviously increase the RIAA’s profits and inoculate online music piracy, the emerging digital markets …
Arresting Technology: An Essay, Ann Bartow
Arresting Technology: An Essay, Ann Bartow
Ann Bartow
This Essay considers the current trend of content owners using copyright laws (particularly the doctrine of contributory infringement) to "arrest technology," thereby burdening file sharing technologies with a duty to prevent unauthorized copying of copyrighted works in digital formats. The Author argues that copying is not necessarily theft, and that sharing music files (for example) shouldn't be treated by courts or lawmakers as if it was "the moral equivalent of looting." Instead, copyright owners should take responsibility for developing technological measures to minimize unauthorized copying, so that file trading technologies, themselves often copyrightable innovations, can flourish and copyright law promotes …