Annotated Bibliography

• Gopal, Ram. “Do Artists Benefit from Online Music Sharing?”. The University of Chicago. 2-17-10 <http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/500683>

This article presents a model of online music sharing that incorporates economic and technological incentives to sample, purchase, and pirate.

• Bhattacharjee, Supid. “Re-Tuning the Music Industry – Can They Re-Attain Business Resonance?”. COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM. 2-17-10 <http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdf?vid=5&hid=11&sid=bde981c3-7310-4d5e-8348-2b6735da5de2%40sessionmgr10>.

The article discusses the music industry’s efforts to manage changes in high technology. The music market landscape was dramatically altered with the development of the Internet, the development of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, and the creation of MP3 players. The authors examine the questions of whether business models can be developed to harness new technologies and whether business enterprises can maintain and achieve profitable operations involved with digital music. Innovative licensing arrangements and digital rights management (DRM) are also discussed.

• Thall, Peter M.. “What they’ll never tell you about the music business: the myths, the secrets”. 2-17-10 <http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Q5WSuWhPKKwC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=music+business&ots=yDTUg752Pz&sig=XFIQ6rX6V15kEKz4f-7yBnnzuB4#v=onepage&q=&f=false>.

This book identifies and explores many of the  many of the most important issues that impact the musicina, singer and songwriter, and therefore the producer, the personal and business managers, the accountant and the attorney, and every level of music company executive.

• Keesan, Joshua Keesan. “LET IT BE? THE CHALLENGES OF USING OLD DEFINITIONS FOR ONLINE MUSIC PRACTICES”. Berkeley Technology Law Journal 2008: 353-372.

The article addresses music copyright law in the U.S. as new technologies reshape the music industry. It argues that a shift away from traditional music distribution channels to the web as music’s primary medium is forcing the industry to re-conceptualize its business model, and in particular, that the old collective rights system has become obsolete. It explains the current system for administering online music rights, and traces the development of the collective rights organizations.

• Taylor, Susan Lee. “Music Piracy–Differences in the Ethical Perceptions of Business Majors and Music Business Majors.”. Journal of Education for Business June/May 2004: 306-310.

In this article, the author investigated the ethical perceptions of business majors and music business majors from a private university and observed whether the taking of a business ethics course affected students’ perceptions regarding the ethical aspects of downloading, sharing, copying, and selling copyrighted music from Internet and non-Internet sources. The author found that students who had never engaged in such activities were more likely to perceive them as unethical.

• Hugill, Andrew. “Internet music: An introduction.”. Contemporary Music Review 2005: 429-437.

This article provides a summary and overview of the key aspects of  internet music, as well as an introduction to the issue of Contemporary  Music Review on the subject. It examines popular conceptions of  internet music and seeks to define the topic by exploring some music that draws inspiration from networking without actually being  internet music itself.

• Harrower, Andy. “Copyright issues in internet music”. Contemporary Music Review 2005: 483-488.

The article explores the role that music rights societies play in the collection and paying out of music royalties and how new methods of distribution may impact their work. It focuses on a few key areas: convergence of devices and delivery methods, enabling consumers to listen to what they want, when they want, wherever they are; the impact of the internet on the international music  licensing framework; the explosion in the music repertoire available; and the transition from illegal to legal online music services.

• Sernoe, Jim. ““Now We’re on the Top, Top of the Pops”: The Performance of “Non‐Mainstream” Music on Billboard ‘s Albums Charts, 1981–2001.”. Popular Music & Society December 2005: 639-662.

This study attempts to measure how much success non‐mainstream genres and artists have had in crossing over onto the mainstream “pop” charts. The author examines Billboard magazine’s year‐end album charts and determines how well country, Latin, metal/hard rock, rhythm and blues, rap/hip‐hop, and other genres outside of pop have fared. The author also looks at how changes in Billboard’s chart compilation methods have affected the rankings.

• Fox, Mark. “E-commerce Business Models for the Music Industry.”. Popular Music & Society June 2004: 201 -220.

Explores the challenges facing the recording industry in their efforts to adopt business models to meet consumer needs in the electronic commerce milieu. Impact of music labels on the industry; Business models that are being developed to respond to the challenges; Recommendations for music labelcompanies.