Sunday, September 30, 2007

Changing Copyrights

This week our assignment was to do a little research on changing the nature of copyrights. What we were to do was to find three scholarly articles (peer-reviewed) on the subject, summarize, and cite. Ironically, because it seems that the vast majority of any relevant articles are copywritten, I was only able to access one in full text. Here is the article I've found:

Pandora's Digital Jukebox
Bebawi, Antony & Owen, Mark. (1999). Pandora's Digital Jukebox. Managing Intellectual Property Issue 88, 51. 6p. Retrieved 29 September 2007 from
http://wave.lccc.edu/validate/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=buh&AN=2385318&site=ehost-live

This one was all about the changing music industry, and how much of the music released - not just today, but ever, in the history of recorded music - is all finding it's way online. The article is from 1999, so the concepts were still pretty new at the time, but I think it's still relavant. The recording industry is still trying to figure out, exactly, how the "digital millenium" is going to play into their business (and their profit margin), but this article does a good job of pointing out some of the very real, and some potential problems, as well as some potential solutions.


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