Digital Music Wars: Ownership and Control of the Celestial Jukebox

by Tom McCourt and Patrick Burkart

Book Overview

With the rising popularity of online music, the nature of the music industry is rapidly changing. Rather than buying albums, tapes, or CDs, music shoppers can purchase just one song at a time. It's akin to putting a coin into a diner jukebox_except the jukebox is out in cyberspace. But has increasing copyright protection gone too far in keeping the music from the masses? The authors show how the online music industry will establish the model for digital...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742536688
• ISBN13: 9780742536685
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"