Music piracy and illegal sharing: are artists being affected
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https://doi.org/10.18041/1900-0642/criteriolibre.2013v11n18.1121Keywords:
Internet piracy, illegal musical exchange, music industry, external factorsAbstract
This essay analyzes the impact that musical piracy and illegal downloads have on singers and song writers. Arguments suggest that even though singers see a direct affectation on their income from royalties (CD sales), these losses are compensated with the sales of their own brand items, concert tickets and advertising contracts. On the other hand, for song writers, piracy does not affect their finances directly, but it does more on motivational terms. The theoretical analysis is based on the income/outcome function as well as on the Cobb-Douglas production function type, which includes piracy as a negative external factor.
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RIAA (2009). Illegal File Sharing Threatens the Future of the Music Industry. In R. Espejo (Ed.), At Issue. What is the future of the music industry? Detroit: Greenhaven Press. Retrieved from: http:// ic.galegroup.com.ezproxy.auckland.ac.nz/ ic/ovic/ViewpointsDetailsPage/ViewpointsDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Viewpoints&prodId=OVIC&action=2&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CEJ3010558210&u serGroupName=learn&jsid=00660b392baa5d9b7372e1cbf3203f61
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Zentner, A. (2006). Measuring the effect of file sharing on music purchases, Journal of law and economics, Vol. XLIX.
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2017-11-08
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Music piracy and illegal sharing: are artists being affected. (2017). Criterio Libre, 11(18), 113-124. https://doi.org/10.18041/1900-0642/criteriolibre.2013v11n18.1121
