The music industry

This is a learning project about the music industry

## What / Who is the Music industry ?

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* 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?

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

## How does it operate?

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

## Legal issues

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

## Responses to the music industry

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

## Resources

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Learn more about The music industry

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* Wikipedia: Music industry

## External links

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