Monthly Archives: September 2014

MAD versus RAND: Structures of Competition in Music

The more legislators intervene in copyright regulation the more chimerical seems the notion of a ‘fair and transparent’ market for creative work that also delivers economic growth. Perhaps they just need to try harder, or perhaps buried in the megatonnes … Continue reading

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A High Price for Free Music

To the ‘feels like free’ crowd, two examples from the summer of 2014 have shown just how strange and illusory is the ideal of a music market with no barriers to consumption and no price to the public. Barriers, it turns out, … Continue reading

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