The future of the music industry is one subject that continues to fascinate me. In the fall of 2008, I completed an independent study with Professor Ken Rogerson, entitled "The Future of Music: Tensions at the Crossroads of Technology and Law" (download the PDF here), selected for publication in the Spring 2009 edition of the Duke Journal of Public Affairs.
Although I'm not currently pursuing this topic academically, I continue to read about and follow this issue. Here are some interesting articles, blogs, and publications related to technology, law, and music (all links open in a new window):
- Music and the Entertainment Economy (part of The Martin Prosperity Institute)
- Adrian Covert- How Tech Changed the Way We Listened to Music
- Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf- File-Sharing and Copyright [pdf]
- Tim Arango- Digital Sales Surpass CDs
- Gizmodo's Anti-RIAA Manifesto
- Brett Gaylor's blog following his film- Rip: A Remix Manifesto (available in full online and very worthwhile viewing)
- Public Knowledge blog
- Billboard.biz's digital/mobile articles
- TorrentFreak (a blog covering all things BitTorrent)
- Future of Music Coalition blog
- Wired's Epicenter blog- Media category
- Electronic Frontier Foundation's Deeplinks blog
- Creative Commons blog