Winds of Change. Journey of UK Music from the Old World to the New World
33 Pages Posted: 12 Mar 2015
Date Written: March 11, 2015
Abstract
Digitisation and adoption of increasingly fast broadband Internet represent the two fundamental ‘winds of change’ that have transformed the UK music industry since the 1980s. This paper examines the impact of these changes on sales of music and, by extension, on the royalties of creators of music, in both nominal and real terms. It identifies weaknesses and threats in both, opportunities that might be developed as responses, and possible hypotheses for future economic research that are likely to be of interest to the sector in providing evidence in the debates around appropriate strategies and policies.
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