Comments on: File-Sharing Boosts Creation of New Hit Music, Research Finds

By: Ben Jones

Ben Jones — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 01:24:00 +0000

because that’s how business is?

By: Aktuelles 13. Januar 2014

Aktuelles 13. Januar 2014 — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:29:01 +0000

[…] File-Sharing Boosts Creation of New Hit Music, Research Finds “The paper provides empirical evidence that file sharing did not reduce the creation of new hit songs. Instead, more new music entered the hit charts, an effect that’s driven by existing artists.The data shows that the output from existing artists increased, while new artists appeared less frequently in the hit charts. However, since the new material from existing artists was greater than the loss from new artists, the “creation” of new music increased overall.” […]

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Thu, 09 Jan 2014 06:22:54 +0000

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By: Copywrong » Study: File Sharing Leads To More, Not Fewer, Musical Hits Being Written

Mon, 06 Jan 2014 18:29:08 +0000

[…] As Techdirt has noted many times, much of the debate around filesharing is driven by dogma rather than data. That’s beginning to change, although there has been a natural tendency to concentrate on economic issues: that is, whether filesharing causes sales of music and films to drop or not. But copyright is not fundamentally about making money: it’s about encouraging creativity. So arguably a more important question to ask is: does filesharing harm or help creativity? That’s precisely what an interesting new paper entitiled “Empirical Copyright: A Case Study of File Sharing and Music Output,” written by Glynn S. Lunney, Professor of Law at the Tulane University School of Law in New Orleans, seeks to explore (found via TorrentFreak.) […]

By: In the defense of piracy- the relationship between piracy and new music | Lawdit Music Blog

Mon, 06 Jan 2014 12:16:24 +0000

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By: Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 20:20:00 +0000

I bear little comparison to the original – but I do accept the compliment. The real Trotsky was erudite enough to have enlightened even a thick-headed former libertarian.

By: tetridae

tetridae — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 09:34:00 +0000

That is usually something you hear from an angry older person when you try something new instead of doing things their way. It (the anger) gets even worse if you manage to show that your new way is actually way better.

By: icec0ld

icec0ld — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 09:01:00 +0000

If no one downloads or seeds your crap, then the community has decided it, not some corporate shill and marketing lackeys.

Your point is just absolute garbage and not even relevant to me.

By: A Journal of Musical ThingsHow Piracy Leads to More Hit Music » A Journal of Musical Things

Sat, 04 Jan 2014 15:43:05 +0000

[…] music business, and takes it a step further. A study conducted by law professor Glynn Lunney and unearthed by TorrentFreak today found that contrary to popular (read: record industry) belief, file-sharing may help promote […]