The changing role of radio
Legal downloading and streaming
- Consumer able to buy favourite music online
- i-tunes
- Amazon
- mp3
- Able to access music folder
- don't have to buy full album
i-tunes allows audiences to have preview of the song before you buy
- allows you to buy specific songs rather than the whole CD
- artists have their own website where you can buy the song
Streaming
- multi media file ;to download
- music can be played back
- differs from previous video downloading
- allows sending/receiving media across the world web
- accessible if you have wi-fi
- music on i-pod - on your phone
Social networking
- connect with friends and family
Distribution of music through social network
- free membership
- unlimited access
- more for your money
Disadvantages
- no profit made
- more people buying for free
- quality may be poor
- digital music doesn't have the base
Disadvantages for artists
- preview you may like the song. If preview wasn't there you'd buy the whole track
- songs can't be appreciated in one listen
- the song needs to grow on the person
- don't feel the full hype about the song
- preview only a few seconds
- the full song is 7 - 8 minutes long - don't get the full feel about the whole song in a few seconds by listening to the trailers
- banning
Copyright and online piracy
- the exclusive legal right given to an originator to print, publish, perform, film or record
- protects music, photography, film, recording , artwork etc.
- noone can copy without owners permission
- determines who may adapt
- if you make money from copying you are breeeching the copyright law
- IPO provides the right type of protection
- IP may be a brand, invention, design or song
Right to authorise
- reproduce or broadcast
Protection
- copyright prevents your work being stolen or misused
Income
- mamagement invest a lot of money to make the song. The full benefit needs to go to the company who made the video/record
- inability to share work
Piracy
- illegal and inauthorised patented material
- artists and record company lose a lot of money because of piracy
- people lose their jobs because of piracy. The producer and distributor lose out
- industry loses 4.2.billion pounds a year
- artists lose
- songwriters lose
- record companies lose 85% of their income becauseit doesn't generate enogh revenue costs
- prices of albums increase to cover costs
- consumer loses - illegally downloaded music drives up the cost of legitimate product for everyone
The RIAA Trade Organisation - (Recording Industry Association of America)
- fight for rights of artists
- copyright and piracy are caused by the internet
- piracy has been around before internet was invented
- copy and record and tape from radio
- music piracy has been around for ages but the internet has made things much easier
- file sharing and downloading - disadvantages are people are not paying for it
- people are sharing your music for free, it's good for the artist in the long run. The artist is becoming popular through free downloaded music. This then enables the audience to buy clothing or to go and see that artist live
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