The article consider the effect of digital technology on the supply chain for music from the major record labels’ perspectives. Also the effects of piracy on the industry are discussed. The article concludes with a hope outlook for artists and audiences, but strongly asserts that the technological advancements have made it so the record companies will never fully recover or return to the era of opulence in which it reigned for so long.

 

This book depicts authorship and copyright as a sociologist would, delving in to the mass culture debate. He grapples with the present phenomenon of bootlegging in mainstream music. This book is known for being the first "academic treatment" of the matter and Lee sets out to correlate Romanticism and capitalism in the act.

This article higlights the decline in CD sales in America, particularly during the course of this year.  It presents the depressing figures of aggregate album sales and distinguishes the stand-out major record companies and recording artists who lead in a not so impressive track record for 2005. Thus the articles shows how technological advancement has deleteriously affected traditional physical distribution.

In this book the Music Research Institute at Berklee College of Music presents a manifesto for the the still unfolding music revolution. While record companies suffer tremendous losses, music is still being made and artists are as prolific as ever. However what has changed is th methods by which the music is being distributed to the masses.  This book discusses the non-traditional methods of CD distribution that are dominating at the present time.