{"id":142,"date":"2008-05-22T10:36:27","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T09:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/?p=142"},"modified":"2008-05-22T10:36:27","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T09:36:27","slug":"jeremy-silver-the-future-of-music-industry-thinking-digital-session-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/jeremy-silver-the-future-of-music-industry-thinking-digital-session-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Silver – The Future of Music industry [Thinking digital session notes]"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Music industry, and what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going on around there. The general perception is that this is the industry in the flames. Internet has impacted music industry in the earliest stage. This is industry that believes that Sex, drugs and rock and roll is not going out of style. But they maybe missed on the style. They also don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe in disruptive technology.
\nBut music is unique. Oliver Sacks – Musicophilia. His book talks about the fact that music is in the different part of our brain than language and reason. There is something ancient about it.<\/p>\n

Music is always about the technology. Musical devices are basic technological artifacts that change the way music is created and also received.<\/p>\n

CD\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s are not selling anymore, but digital downloads<\/a> are growing at 35% pa. But they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not growing fast enough to compensate for CD\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s. They are not caching up, because P2P<\/a> is much more convenient to get your music.<\/p>\n

This is a fundamental change that happened, that is undermining the institutions that music industry has created. Usual example is the notion of copyright in the mashable world.<\/p>\n

The worst possible PR campaign: RIAA suing downloaders.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But .. at the end of the day, the music industry is still funding the artists. The net affect of all this is that the industry is in flux.<\/p>\n

Yet it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not all bad:<\/p>\n