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Economic Analysis of Music Copyright : Income, Media and Performances / by Ivan L. Pitt

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: SpringerLink BücherPublisher: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010Edition: 1Description: Online-Ressource (XXII, 174p, digital)ISBN:
  • 9781441963185
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9781441963178 | Buchausg. u.d.T.: Economic analysis of music copyright. New York : Springer, 2010. XXII, 174 S.DDC classification:
  • 338.5
RVK: RVK: LR 57508 | LR 57768 | PE 745LOC classification:
  • HB172
DOI: DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6318-5Online resources: Summary: Economics of Music Copyright -- Economics of Music Copyright: Income, Media, and Performances -- Economic Analysis of Music Copyright:Music Users -- Economic Analysis of Music Copyright: Music Publishers -- Economic Analysis of Music Copyright: Songwriters and Composers -- Econometric Analysis -- Theory Review -- Estimation of Skewness, Heavy Tails, and Music Success in a Performance Rights Organization -- Economics of Songwriters’ Performance Royalty Income: Tenure, Age, and Titles -- Economics of Radio Blanket License: Format, Region, and Market Size -- Concluding RemarksSummary: Chris Anderson's initial `Long Tail' analysis was released in 2004 just as the wave of mergers and acquisitions was sweeping the music publishing and radio industries. Music industry executives began looking for Anderson’s ‘Long Tail’ effect and with it the implied redistribution of royalty income from popular songs to long dormant and forgotten works in their catalogs. These music publishers had hoped to further maximize the value of their copyright assets (lyrics and melody) in their existing music catalogs as the sale of compact disks diminished, and consumers switched their purchasing and listening habits to new digital formats in music technology such as the iPod. This book deals with the measurement of skewness, heavy tails and asymmetry in performance royalty income data in the music industry, an area that has received very little academic attention for various reasons. For example, the pay packages, including signing bonuses, of some `superstars' in the sports world are often announced when they join a team. In the art world, the value of an artist's work is sometimes revealed when the work is sold at auction. The main reason it is difficult to study art and culture from a royalty income perspective is that most of the income data at the individual level is often proprietary, and generally not made publicly available for economic analysis. As a Senior Economist for the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) using both internal and licensed external proprietary data, the author found that the so-called `superstar effects' are still present in performance royalty income. Success is still concentrated on a relatively few copyright holders or members who can be grouped into `heavy tails' of the empirical income distribution in a departure from Anderson's `long tail' analysis. This book is divided into two parts. The first part is a general introduction to the many supply and demand economic factors that are related to music performance royalty payments. The second part is an applied econometrics section that provides modeling and in-depth analysis of income data from a songwriter, music publisher and blanket licensing perspective. In an era of declining income from CD album sales, data collection, mining and analysis are becoming increasingly important in terms of understanding the listening, buying and music use habits of consumers. The economic impact on songwriters, publishers, music listeners, and Performance Rights Or ...PPN: PPN: 1649911866Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-2-SBE
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