Name Course Tutor Date How has the music industry been affected by the internet and digital downloading? As the world progresses, internet power is handed over to people and the digital music downloads and sharing of files has become so common that the business in the music industry has started deteriorating and they are losing money really fast. This project came into my concern since the available number of musicians and their music genres on the internet is very high. A few megabytes and the song
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One person that has affected my life is Steven Ellison, or better known as his alias Flying Lotus. He is a multi-genre music producer, composer, and rapper, from Los Angeles, California. Before making music, he was already slightly well-known for being the nephew of John and Alice Coltrane. Music is a big part of my life. When I began seriously collecting and listening to music, Flying Lotus really influenced and expanded my tastes. But when asked to do a quick presentation on someone that
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management. This practice has been used by Records and Information Management (RIM) Professionals for over three decades and had its basis in the management of information in paper or other physical forms (microfilm, negatives, photographs, audio or video recordings and other assets). ILM includes every phase of a "record" from its beginning to its end. And while it is generally applied to information that rises to the classic definition of a record (Records management), it applies to any and all informational
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simultaneous users during the height of its popularity in February 2000. Napster's offering of this 'peer-to-peer' technology was strongly condemned by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), a trade group representing the world's biggest record labels, Universal Music, Sony Music, Warner Music, EMI Group and Bertelsmann AG. RIAA alleged that Napster was engaging in or assisting others in copying copyrighted music without payment or the express permission of the rights owners. RIAA also claimed
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different kinds of performance exist in all cultures, were supported in royal courts, developed into sophisticated forms and over time became available to all citizens. The process has been accelerated in modern times by an entertainment industry which records and sells entertainment products. Entertainment evolves and can be adapted to suit any scale, ranging from an individual who chooses a private entertainment from a now enormous array of pre-recorded products; to a banquet adapted for two; to any size
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ANALYZING MANAGERIAL DECISIONS: iTunes Music Pricing MBA 540 LaTroy Middlebrook May 22, 2016 Dr. M. Pate 1) Apple’s ingenious policy strategy in variable pricing permits Apple to increase iTunes sales profits by appraising highly regarded artists’ or songs at an elevated amount, than underappreciated artist or songs with fewer fans. For example, 2016 Grammy winner for Album of the Year, Taylor Swift, ‘1989’ sells for $7.99 and features 13 songs on iTunes. However, say that iTunes increases the
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A man once made a movie of people going to the moon. He wished that people could hear what his characters. Well a man called Thomas Alva Edison made the first sound machine. It recorded the kid song “Mary had a little lamb.” Thomas called his machine the photograph. So the machine worked when you put tin foil around a cylinder and turn a handle. You shout as loud as you can into a tube. When you play it back you can hear a faint voice. After the foil was taken off it would no longer work. Later on
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A Phonograph, or record player, is an instrument that reproduces sounds through the vibration of a needle, which follows a groove on a rotating phonographic disc. A phonograph disc, which is more commonly known as record, stores replica sound waves as indentations in a curved groove carved on the surface by a needle. When the record is played, a different needle reacts to the waves, and the movements are changed back into sound (Editors). Instruments similar to the phonograph were created early
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overall security. With attention to the “360 Deal”, as Tiffany Simmons Rufus defines it, “contracts that allow the record label to receive a percentage of the earnings from all of an artist’s activities rather than just earnings from record sales.” The above mentioned “multiple rights deals” subject most creative talent within the music industry to losing money while the “big 3 record labels” grow larger.
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radio, iPod’s and concerts for many years. Before an artist even dreams of hitting the radio, preparation has to occur and the preparation can take years. Some artists get noticed by record companies and unfortunately get lost in the depths of the record company if not successful. Some artists decide to not follow the record company and take major risks in independently create their own label. That is what the band Throbbing Gristle did. Throbbing Gristle was formed in the fall of 1975. The band consisted
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