A Digital Business Model for Independent Musicians

Brown, Hugh D. (2006) A Digital Business Model for Independent Musicians. In Proceedings Association of Internet Researchers Doctoral Colloquium, Brisbane.

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Abstract

This project will investigate the barriers to independent musicians' creation of a sustainable music business. It will do via a survey of independent musicians' activities and successes, which will be used to inform an attempt to build an original music business. The project will harness digital production and distribution techniques and concentrate mainly on network theory and practice to support its promotion techniques. It is expected to contribute to our understanding of organised networks and the interaction between online and offline communication.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Status:	Unpublished
Keywords:	Music business, online music, online music business, music industry, recording industry, independent music, indpendent musicians, indpendent artists, sustainable music business, distributed creativity, distributed risk, distributed reward, creative commons license, peer-to-peer distribution, media hegemony, monopsony, media monopsony, media oligopsony, media monopoly, media oligpoly
Subjects:	340000 Economics > 349900 Other Economics > 349901 Political Economy 350000 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services > 350200 Business and Management > 350204 Marketing and Market Research 410000 The Arts > 410100 Performing Arts > 410101 Music 390000 Law, Justice and Law Enforcement > 390100 Law > 390114 Intellectual Property 350000 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services > 350200 Business and Management > 350213 Electronic Commerce 400000 Journalism, Librarianship and Curatorial Studies > 400100 Journalism, Communication and Media > 400199 Journalism, Communication and Media not elsewhere classified 410000 The Arts > 410300 Cinema, Electronic Arts and Multimedia > 410303 Multimedia 280000 Information, Computing and Communication Sciences > 289900 Other Information, Computing and Communication Sciences > 289999 Other Information, Computing and Communication Sciences
ID Code:	7862
Deposited By:	Brown, Hugh
Deposited On:	24 May 2007
Copyright Owner:	Copyright 2006 Hugh Brown
Additional Information:	This was my presentation to the Dcotoral symposium. It was the first public exposure of my hourglass model for the shape of Western cultural industries and critique of ways to reshape the music business.