The death and life of the music industry in the digital age

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Label

The death and life of the music industry in the digital age

Statement of responsibility

by Jim Rogers

Creator

• Rogers, Jim, 1969-

Subject

• Music and technology
• Music and technology
• Digital Rights Management
• Sound recording industry -- Social aspects
• Sound recording industry -- Social aspects
• Musikwirtschaft

Language

eng

Summary

The Death and Life of the Music Industry in the Digital Age challenges the conventional wisdom that the internet is 'killing' the music industry. While technological innovations (primarily in the form of peer-to-peer file-sharing) have evolved to threaten the economic health of major transnational music companies, Rogers illustrates how those same companies have themselves formulated highly innovative response strategies to negate the harmful effects of the internet. In short, it documents how the radical transformative potential of the internet is being suppressed by legal and organisational innovations. Grounded in a social shaping perspective, The Death and Life of the Music Industry in the Digital Age contends that the internet has not altered pre-existing power relations in the music industry where a small handful of very large corporations have long since established an oligopolistic dominance. Furthermore, the book contends that widespread acceptance of the idea that online piracy is rampant, and music largely 'free' actually helps these major music companies in their quest to bolster their power. In doing this, the study serves to deflate much of the transformative hype and digital 'deliria' that has accompanied the internet's evolution as a medium for mass communication

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

384

Index

index present

LC call number

ML3790

LC item number

.R63 2013

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography