Welcome to the creative economy -- Why music professionals need to think like entrepreneurs -- Developing the 21st century global music professional -- Getting to know you : branding and marketing -- Opportunities ahead : global rights management -- Revenue streams : global performing and...

Introduction : capitalism, music, and social theory -- A brief history of music and capitalism before the rise of neoliberalism -- Neoliberal capitalism and the cultural industries -- Globalization -- Digitalization -- Singing in the shadows of neoliberal capitalism -- Conclusions : capitalism...

Introduction : Valuing music / Gayle McPherson and Allan Dumbreck -- The need for the music entrepreneur / Allan Dumbreck -- From DIY to D2F : contextualizing entrepreneurship for the artist/musician / Holly Tessler and Matthew Flynn -- Example case study? The professional musician / Allan...

"Selling Digital Music documents the transition of recorded music on CDs to music as digital files on computers. More than two decades after the first digital music files began circulating in online archives and playing through new software media players, we have yet to fully internalize the...

Den weltweiten Erfolg des MP3-Formats hatten sich die Ingenieure des Fraunhofer-Instituts in Erlangen nicht träumen lassen, die Anfang der 1990er-Jahre dieses digitale Audio-Format entwickelt haben. Heute können ca. 7 Milliarden Geräte Musik in diesem Format abspielen - so viel ungefähr, wie...

This paper analyses the interdependency between the market for music recordings and concert tickets, assuming that there are positive indirect network effects both from the record market to ticket sales for live performances and vice versa. In a model with two interrelated Hotelling lines prices...

This paper investigates the upcoming business model of online streaming services allowing music consumers either to subscribe to a service which provides free-of-charge access to streaming music and which is funded by advertising, or to pay a monthly flat fee in order to get ad-free access to...

In Zeiten einer hohen Reizüberflutung konkurrieren nicht nur Unternehmen sowie deren Produkte und Dienstleistungen um die Aufmerksamkeit ihrer Zielgruppen. Auch Personen des öffentlichen Lebens, z.B. Politiker, Künstler oder Wissenschaftler, stehen im Wettbewerb zueinander. Eine Möglichkeit,...

This paper investigates the upcoming business model of online streaming services allowing music consumers either to subscribe to a service which provides free-of-charge access to streaming music and which is funded by advertising, or to pay a monthly flat fee in order to get ad-free access to...

Reformatted provides the most accurate and insightful account to date on the upheavals in the music industry over the past two decades. Leyshon traces music's economic geography from the bricks and mortar of recording studios to financial strategies, file-sharing, code and software struggles,...

Musikwirtschaft 2.0. Bestandsaufnahmen und Perspektiven : eine Einführung / Steffen Höhne und Wolf-Georg Zaddach -- Musikpolitik : Voraussetzungen, Aufgaben und Ziele der öffentlichen Musikförderung / Martin Pfleiderer -- Wandel vor der Digitalisierung : die Schallplatte als Perspektive für...

This article reviews recent theoretical contributions on digital piracy. It starts by elaborating on the reasons for intellectual property protection, by reporting a few facts about copyright protection, and by examining reasons to become a digital pirate. Next, it provides an exploration of the...