TRENDS AND PERSPECTIVES OF

DIGITAL MEDIA DISTRIBUTION

Beatriz Alvarado - David Barrientest - Volkan Koc

Intellectual Property

a work or invention that is the result of creativity, such as a manuscript or a design, to which one has rights and for which one may apply for a patent, copyright, trademark, etc.

The introduction of the compact disc

“The key attribute of the compact disc was not so much its small size but, the fact that it stored music in a digital, rather than analog format.

Philips and Sony began work in the 1970s, launched the disc in 1982.

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Moody, G. (2012, October 19). 30 years of the cd, of digital piracy, and of music industry cluelessness. Techdirt.com. Retrieved March 29, 2014 from http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121018/10023520751/

Two profound consequences came from this

A shift from a world of analogue music recordings to one that was digital

It created the pre-condition for the rise of file sharing in the 1990s

The rise of peer-to-peer (P2P) sharing

P2P: a type of internet network that allows a group of computer users to connect with each other and directly access files from one another's hard drives.

Napster

Limewire

Vuze

Frostwire

uTorrent

BitComet

While the rise of Napster in 1999 administered a fatal injection into the arm of the music industry…

…that same year also delivered one of the most important releases of the last fifty years—Moby’s Play.

The song “Summer” that you are listening to right now is featured in the album.

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Mody sold over 12 million copies, generate 9 singles

and ultimately saw all 18 of its tracks licensed for use in

commercials, movies and television.

Music's lost decade: Sales cut in half

“Total revenue from U.S. music sales and licensing plunged to $6.3 billion in 2009, according to

Forrester Research. In 1999, that revenue figure topped $14.6 billion.”

“Moby:

“When I say that the music business has fallen apart, in many ways I see that a lot of the most egregious, sort of uncreative aspects of the music business are slowly falling by the wayside. I think the low-water mark for the music business, in terms of creativity, was about 1999, when pop music was ubiquitous and selling tens of millions of copies; now there’s certainly still a lot of mercenary pop music, but it seems like it’s the last gasp of a dying industry.

Daly, J. (2013, August 3). Moby: The Interview. The Weeklings. Retrieved March 25, 2014, from http://www.theweeklings.com/joe-daly/2013/08/03/moby-the-interview/

THE THRICHORDIST.COMArtists for an ethical and sustainable internet

David Lowery, TheTrichorisit blogger:

“When Napster and P2P came along honestly I wasn’t pleased. I thought that we’d lose sales to large scale sharing but through more efficient distribution systems and disintermediation we artists would net more. So like many other artists I embraced the new paradigm and waited for the flow of revenue to the artists to increase. It never did.

“-”Meet The New Boss, Worse Than The Old Boss?”

The present digital music distribution model has 3 legs

according to Lowery File sharing/cyber lockers

Digital music storesStreaming services

In monitoring the Trichordist blog, it is evident that everyone who blogs, and responds to blogs on the site,

feels that creators in the music industry are not benefitting as much

as they should be from either of these three avenues.

FarePlay & The Trichordist

The Trichordist links through to FarePlay on Facebook.

William Buckley Jr. is a music business veteran, pro-artist digital rights advocate and Founder and President of FarePlay, a non-profit educational organization.

He is an engaged advocate for the petition campaign “I respect music,” through blogging on TheTrichordist.com and TheHuffingtonPost.com and posting on the FarePlay facebook.

These are some responses to the Facebook posts

Petition: Tell Congress to Support Artists' Pay for Radio

Play

Moby: ““Then I look at a lot of the music that’s come out in the last five or six years—whether it’s Bon Iver, Arcade Fire, even a band like The National–bands that wouldn’t have had a chance with the major labels in the 90s. So I see the demise of the record business as benefiting music itself.

Daly, J. (2013, August 3). Moby: The Interview. The Weeklings. Retrieved March 25, 2014, from http://www.theweeklings.com/joe-daly/2013/08/03/moby-the-interview/

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