Three Perspectives. New York & London: Routledge, 2007. Print.
This book was written to give the reader a general understanding of the protocols of the music industry and how industries from different cultures are similar or different.
This book is scholarly in that, similar to Navigating the Music Industry: Current Issues & Business Models, it was written by Dick Weissman, an expert in this field and professor at UCD. The two other authors, Arthur Bernstein and Naoki Sekine, work for the Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts, UK, and Epic Records, Japan (respectively). Their insight is quite relevant and substantiated.
I feel this book could help my understanding of how the music industry battles piracy not just in the United States but in other nations as well. This will be important when I try to determine the worldwide music industry’s effort to battle piracy.
Jennings, David. Net, Blogs, and Rock’n’Roll. London & Boston: Nicholas Brealey
Publishing, 2007. Print.
This book examines discovery in regards to the internet, blogging, and music. It looks at how these things are affecting the music market—how people discover music and what this means for the music industry.
David Jennings runds a media consultancy, Dj Alchemi Ltd, and is also a Psychologist who focuses on how people use the internet to learn and discover from each other. He has also been a contributing writer for the music business magazine Five Eight and the Spectator.
This book is interesting in that it really explains the tools the internet offers people to learn from each other, share what they’ve discovered, etc. and how these things have changed the climate of the entertainment industries.
Talbot, Michael. The Business of Music. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2002.
Print.
This book various topics relating to the music business. The chapter I am particularly interested in is Illegality and the Music Industry. As this book was written in 2002 this chapter really only talks about legality issues surrounding Napster and other peer to peer networks like that. However, it also discusses, in detail, copyright laws and how they are enforced.
Simon Frith, who wrote the chapter I am interested in in this book is a rock critic and sociologist. He holds a doctorate in sociology at UC Berkeley and has written several books regarding this subject. He also been a professor of sociology at the University of Warwick, Strathclyde University and University of Stirling.
This chapter will give me another perspective on music piracy and its effects.
Blythe, Mark and Wright, Peter. (2006) Technology Scruples: Why Intimidation Will
Not Save the Recording Industry and How Enchantment Might. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. 30 Mar. 2007: 411-420
This is an article that was published in 2007. The article looks at the ethical implications of copying and argues that the legal measures the industry is taking is not helping, but hurting their cause.
Both authors are from the Department of Computer Science at the University of York, Heslington, York and thus one can conclude that their insight is scholarly. The article is also quite well documented and cited.
The article will help me argue the point that the industry is handling this crisis in the wrong way and that there are better ways to deal with it.
Cornyn, Stan. Exploding. New York: Harper Collins, 2002. Print.
This book looks at the Warner Music Group specifically. They were one of the most successful record label groups of the 60s, 70s, and 80s. The book was written by one of the executives of WMG and he talks about how the business changed during the 90s, leading to the downfall of WMG.
As one of the heads of the largest music group in the industry I think Stan Cornyn’s insight will be very relevant and useful for this paper. He will certainly provide a biased viewpoint but one that is necessary to understand nonetheless.
I feel like this book could help to get an idea of how the record label was affected by piracy on a more personal level—in terms of how it affected the “higher ups” at big labels and what they felt about it.
Paradise, Paul R. Trademark Counterfeiting, Product Piracy, and the Billion Dollar
Threat to the U.S. Economy. Westport, Connecticut and London: Quorum Books. 1999
This book, as the title suggests, looks at piracy and counterfeiting and the economical issues surrounding them.
The book is well cited including many pages of sources. Paul Paradise has written several books about piracy laws, counterfeiting, and economics.
This book will help me understand the beginnings of this issue (the book was written in 1999) and how instantly devastating piracy was to the music industry.
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