While the British music industry claims they have lost £1.1 billion in the last three years, media market resaerchers Jupiter media calculate that the figure is at most £290m. The problem is that the numbers do not add up. For example, the British music industry keeps claiming that there is a reduction in the market. Could it be that there is obviously a shift in consumer trends? Witness iTunes and the legitimate download sites. Then there is the fact that the entertainment market is much more competitive. Games and DVD sales keep going up, which indicates that people are spending their media money elsewhere.
Copyright
What’s next for the proposed Copyright Directive?
On September 12 the European Parliament decided to ignore expert advice and adopted a version of the new Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM) that contains troublesome issues, which have been discussed Read more…
