An academic Law workshop relating to the topic of Music streaming, copyright and inequality, taught by an Aberystwyth University lecturer.
AberWorkshops are academic workshops, available in a variety of subjects, delivered by Aberystwyth University experts, conducted face-to-face or virtually.
"Music streaming, copyright and inequality" - Law AberWorkshop
The recorded music industry is one that is fundamentally underpinned by copyright law. Over the past 20 years, digital and internet technologies have fundamentally changed the structure of the record industry, affecting copyright law’s ability to function as an income generator for artists. Streaming is now the preferred choice of most consumers; services such as Spotify and Apple Music have helped the record industry reboot after a period of financial turbulence during the early Noughties. Not everyone, however, is benefitting from the success of streaming platforms. Many artists claim that the system is rife with inequality and that they are struggling financially whilst record companies’ profit margins continue to increase. This talk examines what happened to the record industry, where the problems lie, and what copyright law can (and can’t) do to remedy the issues faced by today’s recording artist.
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