Creative Industries

Ruth Towse on the Digital Copyright Exchange

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Could technology override economics in the case of the Digital Copyright Exchange? Economic analysis of collective rights administration has so far strongly supported the natural monopoly case for single national collecting societies for particular bundles of rights protected by territorially based copyright law and the courts have gone along with that view. Digitization in the… Read more » about Ruth Towse on the Digital Copyright Exchange

Economic Survival in a Long Established Creative Industry: Strategies, Business Models and Copyright in Music Publishing

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Sheet music for Mozart's Coda Sonata in C Major

Project funded by the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 2014-2016 (research grant no. AH/L004666/1) The research aims to analyse the survival of music publishing industry over a long period of time as it adapted its products, marketing strategies and business models to new technologies and legislative changes. The analysis is expected to provide new… Read more » about Economic Survival in a Long Established Creative Industry: Strategies, Business Models and Copyright in Music Publishing