Write a 2500 word paper which relates the ideas found in the following readings to the material we are studying in this class:

Chapter 1 of Yochai Benkler’s The Wealth of Networks

Intro – Chapter 1, Chapter 4 of The Music Industry – Music in the Cloud by Patrik Wikstrom

Chapter 5 of Internet and Society by Christian Fuchs

Article by Douglas Rushkoff from www.edge.org on connectivity and collective expression.

Be sure to discuss the following concepts with relationship to music and intellectual property online:

Networked information economy

Open source Intellectual property

Connectivity vs. control

Service vs. product

Copyright industry definitions and dynamics

Web 1.0, 2.0, 3.0

Virtual reality

How do these concepts relate to the development of music in the online arena? How are the creative and economic aspects of music changing in today’s online music world? How are concepts of authorship and artistic identity being transformed? How has music played a role in the history of the internet’s development? Connect ideas in the articles that are not specifically about music with ideas and musical examples.

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