Write a 2500 word paper which relates the ideas found in the following readings to the material we are studying in this class:
Chapter 1 of Yochai Benkler’s The Wealth of Networks
Intro – Chapter 1, Chapter 4 of The Music Industry – Music in the Cloud by Patrik Wikstrom
Chapter 5 of Internet and Society by Christian Fuchs
Article by Douglas Rushkoff from www.edge.org on connectivity and collective expression.
Be sure to discuss the following concepts with relationship to music and intellectual property online:
Networked information economy
Open source Intellectual property
Connectivity vs. control
Service vs. product
Copyright industry definitions and dynamics
Web 1.0, 2.0, 3.0
Virtual reality
How do these concepts relate to the development of music in the online arena? How are the creative and economic aspects of music changing in today’s online music world? How are concepts of authorship and artistic identity being transformed? How has music played a role in the history of the internet’s development? Connect ideas in the articles that are not specifically about music with ideas and musical examples.
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