Effects of the implementation of the CRM Directive on the Norwegian music environment : Direct and indirect effects of the Directive in the case of N…

2018

Master's thesis Music Management MU501 - University of Agder 2018 Since the beginning of digitalisation, the music industries have struggled to develop systems for the accurate and fair collection and distribution of remuneration for the exploitation of rights. Systems are often found to be less than optimal, as a consequence of them being designed to work in an offline environment that is no longer present, making them outdated and dysfunctional. Ideally, such systems are developed naturally in tandem with disruption and change. This however, does not always happen, and it is in cases like these that lawmakers are forced to step in. Legislation does have a remarkable tendency of arriving l…