The music industry

This is a learning project about the music industry

What / Who is the Music industry ?

• Artists
  • Musicians
  • Composers
• Recording companies e.g EMI, Warner, Virgin etc
• 'Publishers' eg. Bossey & Hawkes
• Agents aka managers
• Retailers
  • Traditional, such as Tower records
  • New players, such as iTunes
• Consumers
  • Movie industry
  • Radio
  • End listeners/buyers

Why does the music industry exist?

So that free loaders and listen to free music downloaded on the internet

How does it operate?

• Regulation?
• Genre handling, A dual standard?
• Solely music?

Legal issues

• Copyright and Free content
• Artist rights
• Publisher control of industry?

Responses to the music industry

• The age of micro-recording (see Getting started with sound recording)
• Napster, iTunes, MySpace...
• Alternative media

Resources

• Wikipedia: Music industry

External links

• Resources from the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry)
• Association of Independent Music (UK)