CHAPTER 4 – SUMMARY NOTES

Listen to the lecture and complete the summary notes. Write NO MORE THAN 3 WORDS for each blank.

Introduction
Topic: how technology is changing the music industry
Main idea 1: the ways music recorded, (1) ____________________________ have changed
Main idea 2: legal issues
Main idea 3: how to (2) ____________________________ those issues
The changes:
o The major change: (3) ____________________________
§ Most people have computer, popular software, (4) ____________________________
§ Have tools to make , promote and distribute music
o Music production
§ Software for (5) ____________________________
§ Musicians can learn easy-to-use programs and make quality music
§ The (6) ____________________________becomes unnecessary
§ Anyone can make music
o Music promotion
§ Democratized
- Anyone can become a critic on the internet (e.g: post reviews on websites …)
- Weblogs for people to (7) ____________________________, for musicians to discuss music
- Audio blogs/ radio for free download
à anyone can be a DJ
o Music (8) ____________________________
§ Controversial topic for years: how people get and share music
- MP3 downloading (9) ____________________________is popular
- Many sites to get a single song or whole album
- done by File sharing/ P2P: network to connect and (10) ____________________________on
others’ computers
- sharing music between family members and friends exists for a long time
- now sharing can be among people around the world
Legal issues
Controversy:
§ Gray areas in file sharing, most are (11) ____________________________US laws: ownership
and rights to distribute (12) ____________________________in digital world
§ Same tool to record, promote, distribute music; same tool to steal music
o Who to be punished?
§ P2P networks can be used legally
§ (13) ____________________________causes difficulty to legal distribution of information and
music
§ Facts: - 90% of music downloaded (14) ____________________________
- P2P makes money as people use illegally
§ Statistics: in 2005 in USA:
- 60 million people used (15) ____________________________
- 2.5 billion files of images, videos, software were (16) ______________________; 75% music
How to deal with legal issues
Music making companies:
o Ban the (17) ____________________________with illegal file sharing
o Install security devices:
- Hard to copy and share music
- Protect (18) ____________________________and artists

File sharing sites and technology companies:

o Wrong to restrict technology to (19) ____________________________
o Want free (20) ____________________________
o Sharing leads to technological advances
o Restricting internet sharing: limit file sharing & (21) ____________________________

Other group
o Nothing can be done to (22) ____________________________
o Look to new ways to pay artists and companies