Americans perceive downloading music as an everyday act, but it’s actually quite a criminal action. Consequently, downloading music allows the public to listen to their favorite artist for free or for a small price. Stephen Seigel elaborates by saying, “Under the agreement, Napster will begin to charge a monthly fee for use of it’s service--$4.95 seems to be the number being tossed around-- though how the money is ultimately divvied up will surely be a source of future contention.” (“Nipping at…
Unit 30 Digital Graphics P6 Explain potential legal implications of using and editing graphical images In this task I am going to explain the potential legal implications of using and editing graphical images. If you are using any image which is not yours then you should make sure you find out the photos you are using who owns it. You need permissions to use that image if it is not yours if you do not have permissions and you use it than you will have to face legal problems and can get you in a…
Should the artist's music in advertise be a normal thing? I oppose this idea that the advertising business should just be able to use musician's music without their consent. There are two reasons why I don't support this idea. One reason is because Internet services that stream music are taking the place of buying the music which decreases the sales of CDs, records, and cassettes which have been sold over the years. Another reason why I don't support this idea is because any loss in album sales…
A record label makes, distributes and markets sound recordings; basically at the end of the day they're out to make money. How has the music industry been affected by the Internet and digital downloading? This question is important because the Internet is the Music Industry's new problem. Music in today's world without the Internet will be the main question or main concern if we did not have it. Where would the music industry be without the Internet and the power to share files, MP3 waves and…
Illegal downloads, bootlegging movies, the list goes on. Jobless artists due to the fact that people are downloading music instead of going out to purchase the artists music. Movie theaters have also closed due to the fact that people are bootlegging the movies and putting them on the internet for different people to watch. People like to take the easy way out when it comes to buying music and or going to the movies. Many record labels have had to shut down just because they have no way to bring…
their family. Opponents often argued that neverending copyright was nothing more than a complete monopoly that artificially raised the price of books, making them less attainable to the general population, and this prevented the spread of ideas and knowledge. (Eh.net ,an Economic History of Copyright in Europe and the United States). In time it came to be generally accepted that authors and content creators had a pre-existing copyright based on past common law, but that governing bodies such as…
Piracy is a topic that is always being brought up and discussed, for one simple reason; people cannot make up their mind which is right. It has always speculated if people should be persecuted for downloading music in an illegitimate way. Honestly, it is impractical to make somebody pay tons for only a song. Initially, it is not moral to send someone to jail for downloading music or making them pay a ludicrous fine. Commonly, a song costs about 99 cents, which may just be a dollar, however,…
Interdependent means two or more things dependent on each other. The recording industry and the radio industry are a great example of being interdependent. The first recording to be sold was of the opera star Enrico Caruso. That started the recording business basically, records began to be sold all around and a competition grew. The competition was the type of records to be sold. The size of records, the hole in the middle, how many times and how fast it spun, and how many songs were on each…
more accepted term used is file sharing, and it is just that: sharing files over the web, typically illegally. File sharing has been a controversy who’s legality has been frivolously debated since Napster in 1999. (Oberholzer) File sharing has been exaggerated to be an instrument of theft, thus leading to the downfall of the music industry. However, thanks to file sharing, users have been exposed to music they would have otherwise never known existed. File sharing of intellectual copyrights…
The first company I looked into in depth was iTunes and its corresponding Apple Music. Through iTunes, artists receive less than 10% of the price of the sale of their song. For a $9.99 download, the artist receives 94 CENTS, the record company receives $5.35, and iTunes receives $3.70. For every song downloaded, the artist gets NINE CENTS. They put in so much work only to earn nine cents. As the average minimum wage in the United States is currently $1,071.20 a month, the average artist needs to…