Copyright in the online era : monetization and copyright utilization in the digital music market

2013

Master's thesis in music management - University of Agder 2013 The background for this thesis was to look at the unresolved issues regarding monetization and licensing of music in the online area. After studying the music industry for several years I was of the impression that there existed a dichotomy between a “global” unregulated Internet and national markets and law. I used two different methodological approaches; explanatory method to build the understanding and overview needed to build the theoretical background for the thesis and generative research in the form of in-depth qualitative interviews to answer the main questions. I found there to be two significant solution propositions t…