The music industry

This is a learning project about the music industry

What / Who is the Music industry ?

 * Artists
 * Musicians
 * Composers
 * Recording companies e.g EMI, Warner, Virgin etc
 * 'Publishers' eg. Bossey & Hawkes
 * Agents aka managers
 * Retailers
 * Traditional, such as Tower records
 * New players, such as iTunes
 * Consumers
 * Movie industry
 * Radio
 * End listeners/buyers

Why does the music industry exist?
So that free loaders and listen to free music downloaded on the internet

How does it operate?

 * Regulation?
 * Genre handling, A dual standard?
 * Solely music?

Legal issues

 * Copyright and Free content
 * Artist rights
 * Publisher control of industry?

Responses to the music industry

 * The age of micro-recording (see Getting started with sound recording)
 * Napster, iTunes, MySpace...
 * Alternative media

Resources

 * Wikipedia: Music industry