Essays about: "Edward Sandels"

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  1. 1. Creative Destruction and the Music Industry: an investigation concerning new music technologies such as peer-to-peer file sharing and cloud computing and how these affect the informal and formal norms towards copyright protection and music consumption.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Edward Sandels; [2012]
    Keywords : creative destruction; copyright legislation; music industry; control vs. connectivity; cloud computing; belief systems; formal and informal norms; institutionalism; file sharing; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This thesis deals with how creative destruction of the music industry caused by digital technologies can change formal and informal norms concerning the protection of copyrighted material. In the process of creative destruction new innovations can be so great that they change people’s beliefs: in the case of the music industry the technological shift from analogue to digital technologies, in particular peer-to-peer file sharing, have changed people’s views on the morality of piracy due to the low risk involvement that these innovations bring. READ MORE