Title: Webcasting, An Unequal Opportunity Market:
Peering through The Copyright Office's Royalty Rate Proposal
By Alain de Fontenay & Eric de Fontenay
(June 2002)
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Title: Getting Heard Above the Noise: A Guide To Open Mics & Showcases (May 2002)
Part 5 in the "Songwriters in the New Millennium" Series
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Title: A Meeting of the Minds (April 2002)
Part 4 in the "Songwriters in the New Millennium" Series
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Part 2 & 3 in the "Songwriters in the New Millennium" Series (August 2001)
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Title: Songwriter Survey Results (May 2001)
Part 1 in the "Songwriters in the New Millennium" Series
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Title: An Incentive-Based Approach to a P2P Marketplace (March 2001)
In order to establish a viable marketplace, peer-to-peer systems will need to provide content owner with tools to develop relationships with and empower these new economic actors to create and expand the market, much as Blockbuster & HBO had done for film. The paper will propose the use of a self-selection multi-level licensing system that offers DNs with a menu of contracts defining pricing, terms, conditions & incentives/rewards for the use and redistribution of content.
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Title: Loss of Innocence: Story of the MP3.com Rebellion (December 2000)
From Michael Robertson's initial MusicDish appearance in 1998, to the launch of and lawsuit around My.MP3.com, to the unveiling of the MSP (Music Service Provider) model, the report provides a broad and in-depth view of the evolution of this extraordinary company as it changed all the rules.
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Title: P2P & The Digital Marketplace (October 2000)
Keynote presentation to the Semi-Annual ACSEL Conference, organized by the Economic & Commercial Affairs Bureau of the French Embassy. ACSEL (Association pour le Commerce et les Services en Ligne) gathers over 200 companies and organizations in the French multimedia and e-commerce industry.
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Title: The Digital Economy: How Digital Goods are Reshaping the Rules of Commerce (October 2000)
As peer-to-peer has brought disintermediation to a new level, copyright holders ability to control the distribution of intellectual property and create a viable marketplace is being threatened. While litigation and DRM have been the industry's focus, developing models that incite desired behavior from consumers will be necessary to create a viable digital marketplace.
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Title: Story of a Revolution: Napster & the Music Industry (September 2000)
Since the lawsuit was filed against Napster by the RIAA on December 7th, MusicDish has taken an extensive look at the issues raised by this case, from the legal to the philosophical. Joyce Dollinger and Eric de Fontenay provide us with a detailed legal perspective of both sides. Ram Samudrala continues his groundbreaking views on music in "The RIAA s. Free Music." David Weekly dovetails into the technology behind file swapping and where it will lead in "Client As Server: The New Model."
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Title: SDMI: Boom or Bust for the Music Industry (July 1999)
This Special Edition includes analysis of the SDMI initiative in general as well as the more specific Portable Devices Specification. The analysis will provide a background to the debate by examining the impetus for the creation of SDMI, the different players stake in the process and marketplace while providing a non-technical overview of the actual Specification, its impact on different segments of the industry and potential for widespread industry adoption.
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Title: MP3: Digital Music for the Millennium? (June 1999)
As mp3 has developed into a potential mass-market distribution format for music media, it has raised a flurry of questions and issues revolving around the technologies' legal, economic and strategic implications for every segment of the industry including artists and musicians, labels, retailers and manufacturers to name a few. Tag It through its MusicDish Industry Survey Series conducted a survey in collaboration with MP3.com to attempt to address several of those issues and questions.
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