Creative Industries

What do we know about the impact of coronavirus on the creative industries?

An article by Professor Ruth Towse published in the Economics Observatory, 3 August 2010. Given the wide variation in how the products of the creative industries are made and consumed, the effects of Covid-19 are very different. And given the diversity of ways of working across the industries, so too are the measures needed to… Read more » about What do we know about the impact of coronavirus on the creative industries?

Ruth Towse: “Dealing with Digital: Economic Organisation of Streamed Music”

Working Paper No. 01-2020 January 2020 The intervention of digital service providers (DSPs) or platforms such as Spotify, AppleMusic and Tidal supplying music streamed music has fundamentally altered the way that song-writers and recording artists are paid and the operation of copyright management organisations (CMOs). Platform economics has emerged from the economic analysis of two-… Read more » about Ruth Towse: “Dealing with Digital: Economic Organisation of Streamed Music”