Music Media Entertainment Group

DATE PUBLISHED:                       Not Available

AUTHOR/PRODUCER:                 Jonathan Mitchell

PUBLICATION:                              Helium

SUMMARY:Tjis article is about the British Phonographic Institute who is the watchdog and governing body of the UK music industry. They also protect the rights of its members and lobbies parliament on their behalf and ensures that the UK industry continues to export more music than it importsAPU - Anti Piracy Unit The article also discusses MCPS Mechanical Copyright Protection Society. This society collects royalties from record labels based on the number of records pressed (small independent label) or the number of units sold (major label) and distributes the royalties direct to its members or publishing house if they have one. The MCPS is a non profit organisation.

http://www.helium.com/tm/290099/think-music-industry-bands

DATE PUBLISHED:                       Not Available

AUTHOR/PRODUCER:                 Mark De Jong

PUBLICATION:                              Helium

SUMMARY:

Is the age of digital music going to single-handedly topple the music industry? Should art be free? Is free music ethically acceptable? In his article “Music for Nothing,” Jesse Walker addresses the related issues of music downloading and music piracy, and he discusses the conflict surrounding them. He asserts that the free digital music era is, much like disco, another phase, in which music listeners would prefer to download free digital music from the Interneta preference that the music industry has initially decided to attack rather than accommodate. According to Walker, this phase will have either a liberating or a destructive effect on music as we know it. Either free music will crumble the control of big business and the industry itself, thereby liberating music and placing the control in the hands of artists and listeners, or free music will eliminate the desire of musicians to create and record music by ruining their sources of income

http://www.helium.com/tm/158560/grand-theft-audio-digital

DATE PUBLISHED:                       Not Available

AUTHOR/PRODUCER:                 Melissa Borowski

PUBLICATION:                              College View

SUMMARY:

Millions of college students download music illegally, and they do it for many reasons. Why purchase an entire CD when you only want one or two songs for instance? Why even pay for a song when you can simply get it for free? Some students think that just because it’s something that’s being downloaded, it’s not stealing. These students will all have serious consequences to pay if they ever get caught, as music piracy is a serious act against the law.

http://www.collegeview.com/articles/CV/campuslife/music_piracy_on_campus.html

DATE PUBLISHED:                       Apr. 13, 2003

AUTHOR/PRODUCER:                 Tim O’Reilly

PUBLICATION:                              oreillynet.com

SUMMARY:

Research on the RIAA that includes over the last 5 years, the recording industry has shipped out more than 2 billion physical units of product, adding up to a retail value of more than $20 billion.

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3056

DATE PUBLISHED:                       Mar. 04, 2003

AUTHOR/PRODUCER:                 All Business

PUBLICATION:                              All Business

SUMMARY:

UK based digital music service provider Broadchart, has announced that it has acquired NetPD, the digital rights management provider and online media monitoring service.

http://www.allbusiness.com/technology/technology-services/479194-1.html

DATE PUBLISHED:                       Jan. 22, 2003

AUTHOR/PRODUCER:                 Dean Vuletic

PUBLICATION:                              Radio Prague

SUMMARY:

The global music industry has experienced a slump in sales in recent years, and the situation for its Czech component is no different. One of the major threats to the music industry is piracy, and last year there was a record number of piracy cases discovered in the Czech Republic.

http://www.radio.cz/en/article/36701

DATE PUBLISHED:                       Jan. 19, 2003

AUTHOR/PRODUCER:                 BBC News

PUBLICATION:                              BBC News

SUMMARY:Singer Robbie Williams has said he believes music piracy is a “great” idea. He made the comment at a music trade fair in Cannes, predicting it would anger his record company EMI.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/2673983.stm

DATE PUBLISHED:                       Dec. 18, 2002

AUTHOR/PRODUCER:                 BBC News

PUBLICATION:                              BBC

SUMMARY:

The circulation of pirated music in the UK has risen by more than 36% according to the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/2588013.stm

DATE PUBLISHED:                       Nov. 22, 2002

AUTHOR/PRODUCER:                 Joanna Glasner

PUBLICATION:                              Wired

SUMMARY:When the Mexican Supreme Court moved some of its offices last week to a quieter workspace, few federal officials saw it as anything more than a sensible relocation. After all, the court is located smack in the middle of Mexico City, surrounded by traffic, street vendors and crowds of tourists and commuters. The Recording Industry Association of America, however, saw things differently. According to the RIAA, the court’s relocation was directly related to music piracy.

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2002/11/56522

DATE PUBLISHED:                       Mar. 31, 2004

AUTHOR/PRODUCER:                 Earl Mardle

PUBLICATION:                              A Networked World

SUMMARY:

Researchers believe that music piracy is not responsible for declining record sales. The Researchers monitored 680 albums, chosen from a range of musical genres, downloaded over 17 weeks in the second half of 2002. … The most heavily downloaded songs showed no decrease in CD sales as a result of increasing downloads.

http://www.kn.com.au/networks/2004/03/net_music_pirac.html