• Music for Nothing or, I Want My MP3: The Regulation and Recirculation of Affect

    Author(s):
    Gil Rodman (see profile) , Cheyanne Vanderdonckt
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    Cultural Studies
    Subject(s):
    Culture--Study and teaching, Intellectual property, Music, Affect (Psychology), Copyright
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    filesharing, mp3, Cultural studies, Affect
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M63N91
    Abstract:
    With the public discourse around filesharing veering towards punitive extremes, our aim in this essay it to reframe the issue in two ways. First, we argue that the filesharing debates are “too economic,” insofar as they reduce a multi-faceted phenomenon to a single issue: financial loss resulting from the theft of intellectual property. Lost in such arguments is the fact that music routinely circulates through the culture in myriad ways that have little (if anything) to do with commerce and capitalism, and everything to do with affect and affiliation. Second, the filesharing debates are simultaneously “not economic enough,” insofar as they evade the financial complexities of the music business in favor of an overly simplistic equation: “downloaded music” leads directly to “lost sales revenues.” A more robust analysis of the music industry’s standard economic practices, however, undercuts both its economic claims about the negative effects of filesharing on sales and its moral claims to be defending helpless musicians from downloading “thieves.”
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    Published as:
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    Publisher:
    Routledge
    Journal:
    2006
    Volume:
    20
    Issue:
    2/3
    Page Range:
    245 - 261
    ISSN:
    0950-2386
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    6 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved

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