TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gronau, Norbert
A1  - Schaefer, Martin
T1  - Why metadata matters for the future of copyright
JF  - European Intellectual Property Review
N2  - In the copyright industries of the 21st century, metadata is the grease required to make the engine of copyright run smoothly and powerfully for the benefit of creators, copyright industries and users alike. However, metadata is difficult to acquire and even more difficult to keep up to date as the rights in content are mostly multi-layered, fragmented, international and volatile. This article explores the idea of a neutral metadata search and enhancement tool that could constitute a buffer to safeguard the interests of the various proprietary database owners and avoid the shortcomings of centralised databases.
KW  - copyright
KW  - databases
KW  - metadata
KW  - music industry
Y1  - 2021
SN  - 0142-0461
VL  - 43
IS  - 8
SP  - 488
EP  - 494
PB  - Sweet & Maxwell
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lange, Bastian
A1  - Bürkner, Hans-Joachim
T1  - Value creation in scene-based music production - the case of electronic club music in Germany
JF  - Economic geography
N2  - The focus of this article is on the variability of value creation in the popular music industry. Recent trends in electronic music have been based on both the valorization of global tastes and of local specialities in performance and production. Depending on musical styles and market niches, local scenes have become important forces behind heterogeneous globalocal markets. At the same time, technological change and the virtualization of music production and distribution contribute to increasingly differentiated configurations of value creation. It is therefore necessary to reconstruct theoretically and empirically the new interplay among the local music production, digital media markets, and virtual communities that are involved. On the basis of empirical explorations in a German hot spot of electronic club-music production (the city of Berlin), the article indentifies local interaction practice and constellations of stakeholders. The findings show that value creation in these rapidly changing production scenes has moved away from the large-scale distribution of producer-induced media to audience-induced live performance and interactive soundtrack production. This change involves the rising importance of cultural embeddings such as taste building, reputation building among artists and producers, and local community building. Starting from an open theoretical problematization of value creation with regard to fluid scenes and shifting modes of production, the results of first empirical reconstructions are taken as inputs to an evolving discussion on the configurations of value creation in consumer-based strands of music production.
KW  - music industry
KW  - value creation
KW  - value chain
KW  - creative economy
KW  - Berlin
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/ecge.12002
SN  - 0013-0095
VL  - 89
IS  - 2
SP  - 149
EP  - 169
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Hoboken
ER  -