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In contrast, those industries such as film, music and news have experienced a very deep impact because the core product can be downloaded privately. Of these three, Di Maggio (2014) state that the music industry has been the most challenged by the internet not only in relation to distribution but also production. Waterman and Ji (2014) argue that like the newspaper industry, the music industry was negatively affected because it was slow to adapt and capitalise on

Question 1: Sole traders- they run their business on their own, are personally responsible for it and can keep all of the business’s profits after they paid the taxes. Limited company- an organisation set up to run a business. It is responsible for everything it does. The profit it makes, minus the taxes, is owned by the company and can be shared. Every limited company has people or organisations that hold a share in it. Business partnership- in a partnership, all the business partners personally

matrix like our parents, school, relationships, every day life and even media such as music. Media has known to have take control of our attention and we become subjected to it. We the fans, the artist themselves and even the CEOs or main leaders are in this matrix, regulating power and be submissive to it. We are manipulated for our money, for what we deem as “entertainment.” Although we may not be able to stop the music matrix, copyrights laws and subjection of artist and fans, we can work at giving

Edi K. THE MUSIC INDUSTRY – GLOBALIZING IN MANY WAYS      The music industry is in a time of growth at this very moment. The environment for its growth has been increasing rapidly on many geographical boundaries and has been established through information technology and Internet. In this paper I will analyze how the music industry not only has been affected by Globalization as an economic institution but also that it has become a worldwide-globalized commodity. First, I

The music industry is one of the few industries that have enjoyed complete dominance in their particular segment from their very beginnings all the way up to the late 1990s. Once the internet began to take hold, and become available in every home, the music industry began losing ground in their market segment. Digital downloading through the internet became so popular that record labels began losing money at a significant rate. Their reaction to illegal downloading has been controversial, as well

to day lives without music. It is everywhere, and it has changed in more ways than one over the last ten, twenty years. More accurately, the way we listen and enjoy to it has changed, thanks to technology’s massive influence on the way that we live our lives today. With most things there’s both the good and the bad, and this situation is no different. But I believe that technology is causing so much more chaos than calm for the modern music and entertainment industry. Music has become so easy to

TASK 1 Marginal costing is a traditional financial technique which is used by companies for short term decision making within the music & entertainment industry. The concept of marginal costing is concerned with the treatment of fixed costs and the relationship that exists between sales, variable costs and contribution. This technique is often used by record labels to estimate the costs which they will incur & profits they will earn per unit which is manufactured and sold. Cost behaviour

The music industry has developed in a series of technological advances, from the development of vinyl to the digitization of music and the creation of formats such as compact disc (CD), digital audiotape, and minidisk (Leyshon 2001). Although the digitized music facilitates consumers, it causes the appearance of piracy and the drop of sales. The subject of piracy has occurred for a certain period. Since 1920's, music piracy has appeared into the world with the production of cassette tapes, voice

economic and the huge scale of music market in China, the importance of China’s music industry catches the attention. Although the China’s music industry still cannot shake off some issues such as governmental control, political influence, copyright and so on (Montgomery 2010), the innovation of information technology bring an enormous change to this industry. Indeed, from 2000, this dramatically change attracted more international music companies to enter China’s music market. It is complicated to

Sony Music Entertainment has been the most influential label in music history. They have signed musicians of all different generations and genres so their artists appeal to my generation, my parents generation, and even my grandparents generation. How do they know how to produce music that anybody can enjoy? And at the end of the day, what is more important to them, making a profit or making great music that they are proud of? Sony Music Entertainment was founded in 1929 by the merging of several