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A New Era for the Music Industry: How New Technologies and the Internet Affect the Way Music is Valued and have an Impact on Output Quality

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Tassos Patokos () (University of Athens, Greece)
Abstract

Since its early days, the Internet has been used by the music industry as a powerful marketing tool to promote artists and their products. Nevertheless, technology developments of the past ten years, and especially the ever-growing phenomenon of filesharing, have created the general impression that the Internet is responsible for a crisis within the industry, on the grounds that music piracy has become more serious than it has ever been. The purpose of this paper is to present the impact of new technologies and the Internet on the three main actors of the music industry: consumers, artists and record companies. It is claimed that the Internet has changed the way music is valued, and also, that it may have a direct effect on the quality of the music produced, as perceived by both artists and consumers alike.

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Paper provided by Faculty of economics, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 200826.

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Length: 15 pages
Date of creation: Jan 2008
Date of revision: Jun 2008
Publication status: Published in Panoeconomicus, June 2008, pages 233-248
Handle: RePEc:voj:wpaper:200826

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Keywords: Digital economy; Internet; copyright; Game theory; Imperfect information;

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O33 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
O34 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - Intellectual Property Rights

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