Why Musicians Should Be Able To Sell Out?

Lawrence Lessig’s research on piracy and copyright laws suggest the issue began long before Napster’s free website of burning music for personal use. In fact, stolen content was first documented one hundred years ago when Thomas Edison’s inventions were stolen before copyright laws were in place.

Do you prefer to listen to music? Many of people do. The musicians sell their music and receive large sums of money. However, recently, there has been a large increase in popularity for music streaming services. To keep making money musicians have been required except endorsement deals from large corporations. Artists should use their music in advertising because they will be able to make larger sums of money in addition to gaining popularity.

In the 1980s, we saw many different genres of music emerge, genres such as Pop, Rock, and R&B. But a new genre emerged that sparked a lot of controversy: “Gangsta Rap” otherwise known as Hip Hop. Rappers/Rap groups such as NWA, Run DMC, Big Daddy Kane, and more changed the industry with catchy tunes and lyrics that talked about hard topics like slavery, violence, and police brutality. These lyrics sometimes caused major conflict, whether between races or with civilians and police. Hip Hop was very controversial in the 80s. “Gangsta rap” has caused a lot of controversy, many people protested this music in the late 80s and 90s due to the message within its lyrics and what those lyrics conveyed. Many accused “Gangsta Rap” for promoting things

Censoring music on the radio does not mean that music is unavailable on other streaming platforms, because if one truly wanted to music, they could find it elsewhere. Music censorship, in actuality, is protecting the people of the country. It is stopping the spread of dangerous ideas. It is saving people’s lives. Therefore there is no reason that music shouldn’t be censored on the radio. If one truly wants to “hear real music” which is what F@%*K Censorship describes uncensored music, they can hear it on a platform that unlike the radio, promotes people to ruin their

Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick, two of hip-hop 's biggest legends collaborated in the early months of 1984 to create one of the most influential songs ever. Released in 1985, on the B-side to The Show, "La Di Da Di" garnered considerable media attention, making it one of the earliest rap songs to blow up nationwide. Instead of it playing on just black music radio stations, the song played on Pop music stations. The song has an everlasting legacy and influence on all genres of music, not due to the original song, but rather the hundreds of mega hits through the practice of sampling.

Generally speaking, allowing corporations to use a musician’s music in advertising keeps artists financially stable. Although some argue that advertisers distract an artist from making music, advertising helps an artist pay bills which allows them to make more music. “It [advertising] exists to make money, and artists need money in order to continue making money” which makes ads that much more important to bands (Johnson 6). Commercials allow artists to focus more on music by keeping them financially afloat. Coates states that “Booking agents and tour managers must be paid, gas and food must be bought, t-shirts and posters must be made – all these costs add up” and the money gained on tours may not offset the

The aforementioned factors play a significant role in influencing what is purchased by the consumer, but if they bought other genres instead of pop music, then the industry would be forced to change. When it comes to sales “The music industry is a Superstar economy… the top 1% account for 77% of all artist recorded music income” (Mulligan). Artists who would fall under this 1% criteria mostly belong to the pop genre, such as Taylor Swift, Justin Timberlake, Bruno Mars, and so on. Notwithstanding drama-related reductions in popularity, artists such as these, and several others of “superstar” status, are the ones providing a great deal of the profits for the pop industry. It is through the widespread support of these artists by consumers where the homogeneity of pop music is encouraged and

In his article “The Naysayers,” Alex Ross analyzes the debate that looms between Benjamin and Adorno. Ross concludes that “if Adorno were to look upon the cultural landscape of the twenty-first century, [Adorno] might take grim satisfaction in seeing his fondest fears realized” (Ross). That fear being is Adorno’s expressed concern that music was progressing as another tool for the capitalist society. Unfortunately, this concern of Adorno’s has become all too realized, particularly in the pop music industry. Artists like along the lines of Justin Bieber and Kesha are manufactured products. These artists are property of their corporate entities. Such entities do not have the goal of entertainment, but rather, profit. “All ‘light’ and pleasant art has become illusory and mendacious” (Adorno 274). The music industry, according to Adorno, is essentially a façade. The music itself becomes a front for the profit driven production companies, and, as such, a mere product of the capitalist

   The new model that the music industry is transitioning to is the streaming model. Artists and producers used to make most of their income from physical copy sales. Now most of the income usually comes

Art should be for enjoyment instead of profit. In Negativland’s “In fair use debate, art must come first”, Negativland believes that “The law must come to terms with the difference between artistic intent and economic intent”(159). Negativland’s point is that artists do not have much creative freedom because the copyright law allows artists to profit off lawsuits.Artists will feel more inclined to create new music because they will not have to worry about being

When determining the type of market in which certain goods are sold, there are couple main points to think about: are there many competitors, are the goods homogeneous or heterogeneous and is there free entry and exit in the long run? In our case, there are a lot of sellers in the market, more than 200. Goods, even though can seem to be similar, are heterogeneous. Hotels can differ by location, room quality, size, skill of employees, entertainment, outdoor activities and so on. Also, there is free entry and exit to and out of the market. Considering all these factors, we can clearly say that hotels belong to monopolistic competition. Hotels are price makers, meaning that there is not one market price, at which all the suppliers have to sell

There are a number of other music streaming services in the market, the main competitors being Apple Music and Pandora. The first music streaming service I ever used was Apple Music and the selling point for me was the integration of Apple Music with your existing iTunes library, so you see all your music side-by-side. This functionality was error-prone, as it didn’t allow for cross-device syncing, meaning you have to re-download and recreate your created playlists. This became far too frustrating to deal with (amongst other issues) and so I moved to Spotify. The changeover was almost seamless as the basic structure and design of Apple Music and Spotify are very

Music is something that makes everybody feel good and possibly even help them think straight this why I believe that music should be paid for because if we don’t pay for music then artists and music producers won’t have enough money to make new music. According to (Song Town) “We should pay for music so

In general, I think Zelnick and Conroy should focus its own internal efforts on the development of its website and aggressive marketing to consumers. Make the website easy to use is a must. They should also enhance the website’s searchability since most customers used the “search” function in the store to find music. Furthermore, by looking at the Demographics of Music Purchasers in the United States, they should pay more attention to male consumers or people who are 15-24 years old. Consumers’ taste and preference is in flux. I would recommend them to generate a comprehensive questionnaire to the public regularly in order to catch up the trend. It is better for them to select cover songs that are likely to cause a sensation and make profit.

Revenue management is a scientific method that helps firms to improve profitability of their business. For many years, firms use revenue management to predict demand, to replenish inventory, and to set the product price. The benefit of revenue management can be found in a variety of industries, including airlines, hotels, and electric utilities. Dynamic pricing is a popular method of revenue management, especially when a firm needs to sell a given stock by a deadline. The goal of dynamic pricing is to increase the revenue by discriminating customers who arrive at different times. For instance, if a firm faces a high level of demand, it has an incentive to increase the price to reserve some products for later customers who may be willing to