Most creatives acquire professional talents by learning from others, but in most settings it is difficult to estimate the existence of long-term effects. This paper explores the transmission of skills over a period of more than seven centuries by focusing on the case of music composers. We ask...

Top lines:1. On-demand streaming now provides the main source of revenue for recorded music in the UK. Compared with the ‘pre-digital era’, more rights holders and music creators are now competing for the diminished revenue from recorded music2. Half of musicians (47%) earned less than...

Objectives: Artists and performers are generally incentivised by the ownership of their work. Their income is generated based on the related rights and neighbouring rights. However, the economics of the copyright studies has excluded the most essential link between artists and their source of...

We propose that decomposability may generate a trade-off across different stages of search. We compare (1) a decomposed search—the process of searching by producing a decomposed module, and (2) an integrated search—the process of searching by producing a full-scale product. In the variation...

According to popular and scholarly belief, video killed the radio star. The golden age of radio, culminating in the 1930s and 1940s, was gone with the rise of television in the 1950s and 1960s. In this Article, we advance the claim that television’s role in the “death” of the radio star...

This chapter explores IP protectability of what may be broadly termed “folk music,” though, that is a term fraught with ambiguity, from an intellectual property social justice (IP-SJ) framework. Our IP-SJ approach helps illuminate how IP law and administration affect opportunities for...

National life satisfaction is an important way to measure societal well-being and since 2011 has been used to judge the effectiveness of government policy across the world. However, there is a paucity of historical data making limiting long-run comparisons with other data. We construct a new...

What are the determinants of creativity, novelty, and innovation? In this paper I explore this question through an analysis of data from the Song Explorer podcast, where composers describe how they created a specific song. I mine their accounts to classify their processes into seven different,...

This article focuses on mashup music, a form of sampling expression combining samples from two or more recognisable and popular music recordings into a new whole. It explains how platforms often regulate, displace and silence mashup producers, through a combination of content identification and...

This paper studies the role of consumer learning in the demand for recorded music by examining the impact of an artist%u2019s new album on sales of past and future albums. Using detailed album sales data for a sample of 355 artists, we show that the release of a new album increases sales of old...

Many have speculated that the recent outbreak of COVID-19 has led to a surge in the use of online streaming services. However, this assumption has not been closely examined for music streaming services, the consumption patterns of which can be different from video streaming services. To provide...

This chapter is a songwriter’s essay on the Music Modernization Act and how it attempts to address the future of the songwriting profession in the digital age. Although the advent of streaming has resuscitated the music industry writ large, songwriters—unlike artists and record labels—are...

Trademarks on recordings are routinely used to ensure the accuracy of identifying information that music consumers may care about. Yet under the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2003 decision in Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., the federal trademark statute is not concerned with the...

Music plays a significant role in human life. Background music surrounds us in many places, in restaurants, shopping centers and even at work. The literature suggests that background music can influence an individual’s decision-making process. In the current study we asked participants to...

Within heritage studies, popular music is considered not only as a significant part of cultural history of certain regions and countries, but also as urban and national cultural heritage (primarily in the UK and US). In Russia, a diverse popular musical past has only recently begun to be...

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...

Teachers and mentors in creative fields ranging from scientific research to the arts may shape their students' skills and views of the craft, and in turn the work they produce. How significant is this influence, how long does it last, and are there consequences for the variety and quality of...

In this guide, we discuss the impact of digitalization on the music industry. We rely on market and survey data at the international level as well as expert statements from the industry. The guide investigates recent developments in legal and technological protection of digital music and...

Recording industry revenue has fallen sharply in the last three years, and some -- but not all -- observers attribute this to file sharing. We collect new data on albums obtained via purchase and downloading, as well as the consumers' valuations of these albums, among a sample of US college...

This paper considers economic issues and trends in the rock and roll industry, broadly defined. The analysis focuses on concert revenues, the main source of performers ' income. Issues considered include: price measurement; concert price acceleration in the 1990s; the increased concentration of...

The main aim of MRS is to give proper meaningful suggestion to person for specific items based on users mood and interest towards particular items, MRS has seen a boom in recent years. The two most popular recommendation algorithms: 1) Content-Based Filtering and 2) Collaborative Filtering. The...

This chapter focuses on a widely reported case related to the famous folk song ‘Happy Birthday to You’. Written in the late 19th century, the tune was held in copyright by a series of amendments and statutory actions which rendered the world’s most popular song unable to fall into the...

The present legal framework doesn’t seem to effectively address the issue with respect to music industries and as a result, the Music industry is facing declining profits. “With multiple appeals pending in this regard, there is a need for the legislature to ensure that the Copyright Board is...

This work focuses on the challenges orchestrated by piracy in the Nigerian movie industry, taking into cognizance the mode of operation of the pirates, impacts on the movie industry, and while also exploring the advantages embedded in the adoption of technological measures and political...

This paper introduces a real-time, continuous measure of national sentiment that is language-free and thus comparable globally: the positivity of songs that individuals choose to listen to. This is a direct measure of mood that does not pre-specify certain mood-affecting events nor assume the...

This study investigated the determinants of digital music success. We identified information sources and factors that may influence the consumption of digital music in both the short and longer term: song and artist characteristics, stakeholder influence, and promotional media influence. First,...