Summary
Contents
Subject index
This penetrating and informative book provides readers with the perfect systematic critical guide to the file-sharing phenomenon. Combining inter-disciplinary resources from sociology, history, media and communication studies and cultural studies, Matthew David unpacks the economics, psychology, and philosophy of file-sharing. It fuses a deep knowledge of the music industry and the new technologies of mass communication with a powerful perspective on how multinational corporations operate to monopolize markets, how international and state agencies defend property, while a global multitude undermine and/or reinvent both.
Creativity as Performance: The Myth of Creative Capital
Creativity as Performance: The Myth of Creative Capital
- Introduction
- Artists should get paid like everybody else, right?
- Creative industries?
- The problem with music today
- The ‘Love Manifesto'
- The emperors new sword revisited
- The shift ‘back’ from recording to performance
- The declining value of investment
- The production function
- The manufacture of physical product
- Distribution and sales
- The promoter function
- Publishing rights and the management of wider rights
- Creativity as embodiment and performance?
- Conclusions
Introduction
As discussed in Chapters 4 and 5, intellectual property rights law developed differently in different countries but draws upon a common repertoire of ideas concerning the defence of creativity; in particular in the realm of the arts this has taken the form of claims about the Romantic genius. This defence of property rights on the basis ...
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