2. 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.
3. 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.
“
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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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.
“
“
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.
7. 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.”
8. “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-interv
10. 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
11. The present digital music distribution
model has 3 legs according to Lowery
File sharing/cyber
lockers
Digital music
stores
Streaming 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.
12. 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.
13. These are some responses to the
Facebook posts
Petition: Tell Congress to Support
Artists' Pay for Radio Play
14. 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-interv
