1.
Money from Music: Survey Evidence on Musicians’ Revenue and Lessons About Copyright Incentives
55 Arizona Law Review 301 (2013), Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 13-01
Number of pages: 71
Posted: 10 Jan 2013
Last Revised: 01 Jul 2015
Accepted Paper Series
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4,103
2.
Are Streaming and Other Music Consumption Modes Substitutes or Complements?
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 18 Mar 2012
Working Paper Series
M@rsouin, CEREGE, University of La Rochelle and Université Paris 13
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2,036
3.
Much Respect: Toward a Hip-Hop Theory of Punishment
Stanford Law Review, Vol. 56, No. 983, 2004, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 314, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 314
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 18 Jul 2007
Accepted Paper Series
George Washington University Law School
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1,579
4.
From J.C. Bach to Hip Hop: Musical Borrowing, Copyright and Cultural Context
Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 04-21, North Carolina Law Review, Vol. 84, p. 547, 2006
Number of pages: 100
Posted: 10 Dec 2004
Accepted Paper Series
Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law
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1,288
5.
An Economic Analysis of Online Streaming: How the Music Industry Can Generate Revenues from Cloud Computing
ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 11-039
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 17 Jun 2011
Working Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN
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1,272
6.
Melodies that Help: The Relation between Language Aptitude and Musical Intelligence
International Journal of English Studies, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 101-118, 2011
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 21 Apr 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of Huelva, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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1,203
7.
The Freewheelin' Judiciary: A Bob Dylan Anthology
University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 152
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 11 May 2011
Last Revised: 02 Jun 2011
Working Paper Series
University of Tennessee College of Law
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806
8.
The Spotify Paradox: How the Creation of a Compulsory License Scheme for Streaming On-Demand Music Services Can Save the Music Industry
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 01 Feb 2015
Working Paper Series
Gunderson Dettmer et al., LLP
Downloads
789
9.
Poetic (In)Justice? Rap Music Lyrics as Art, Life, and Criminal Evidence
Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, Vol. 31, No. 1, 2007
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 16 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 01 Oct 2015
Accepted Paper Series
University of Georgia School of Law
Downloads
726
10.
Blurred Lines — Where Copyright Ends and Cultural Appropriation Begins — The Case of Robin Thicke versus Bridgeport Music, and the Estate of Marvin Gaye
Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal, Vol. 36, No. 2, 2014 (pp. 217-242)
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 13 Mar 2015
Last Revised: 27 Nov 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Babson College
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656
11.
No, RIAA, It's Not the End of the World for Musicians
University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review, 2014
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 05 May 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Rutgers Law School
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583
12.
Homophobia in Jamaica: A Study of Cultural Heterosexism in Praxis
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 01 Jul 2012
Working Paper Series
Marlboro College
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575
13.
Slicing the Pie: The Search for an Equitable Recorded Music Economy
In P. Wikström and R. DeFillippi (Eds.), Business Innovation and Disruption in the Music Industry. Edward Elgar (2016),
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 26 Nov 2014
Last Revised: 01 Jun 2016
Accepted Paper Series
American University School of Communication
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556
14.
Piracy and Creation: The Case of the Music Industry
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 07 Feb 2012
Working Paper Series
Telecom ParisTech, Telecom ParisTech and Université Paris 13
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547
15.
Youtube, UGC, and Digital Music: Competing Business and Cultural Models in the Internet Age
Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 104, No. 2, 2010, UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2011-27
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 27 Jul 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law
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534
16.
If I Had a Song: The Culture of Digital Community Networks and its Impact on the Music Industry
Journal on Media Management, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 180-189, October 2003
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 12 Dec 2007
Accepted Paper Series
City University of New York - Department of Statistics and Computer Information Systems and City University of New York - Department of Statistics and Computer Information Systems
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500
17.
Thug Life: Hip Hop’s Curious Relationship with Criminal Justice
Santa Clara Law Review, Vol. 50, 2009
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 18 Jul 2009
Working Paper Series
University of Arkansas at Little Rock - William H. Bowen School of Law
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487
18.
Profit Leak? Pre-Release File Sharing and the Music Industry
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 14 May 2012
Last Revised: 03 Apr 2013
Working Paper Series
North Carolina State University
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467
19.
Verdi's High C
Texas Law Review, Forthcoming, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 286
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 08 Apr 2013
Last Revised: 30 May 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Yale University - Law School
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407
20.
Copyright on Catfish Row: Musical Borrowing, Porgy and Bess, and Unfair Use
Rutgers Law Journal, Vol. 37, No. 2, Winter 2006, Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 05-3, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 667385
Number of pages: 77
Posted: 15 Feb 2005
Accepted Paper Series
Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law
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385
21.
Sonic Jihad — Muslim Hip Hop in the Age of Mass Incarceration
11 Florida Intl. L. Rev. 201 (2015)
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Texas Southern University - Thurgood Marshall School of Law
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370
22.
Simon Reynolds, Retromania and the Atemporality of Contemporary 'Pop'
Discipline 2 (2012), 156-164
Number of pages: 9
Posted: 28 Jul 2012
Working Paper Series
University of Melbourne (Law)
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369
23.
Beyond the Music: An Investigation of the Political Effects of Rap Music
APSA 2009 Toronto Meeting Paper
Posted: 13 Aug 2009
Last Revised: 28 Aug 2009
Working Paper Series
Georgia State University
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357
24.
Is Music the Next eBooks? An Antitrust Analysis of Apple's Conduct in the Music Industry
Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 28 Jul 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Columbia University, Law School, Students and Columbia University - Law School
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341
25.
Remix Without Romance
44 Connecticut Law Review 415 (2011), UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 259
Number of pages: 67
Posted: 23 Mar 2011
Last Revised: 11 Jul 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Davis - School of Law
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335
26.
Song Structure and Phenomenology: Text and Music in 'Mr. Tambourine Man'
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 04 Feb 2010
Working Paper Series
Dept of Musicology, Univeristy of Oslo
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333
27.
'Selling Less of More'? The Impact of Digitization on Record Companies
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 28 Feb 2012
Working Paper Series
Telecom ParisTech, Telecom Paris Tech, Université Paris 13 and Telecom ParisTech
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308
28.
Father(s?) of Rock & Roll: Why the Johnnie Johnson v. Chuck Berry Songwriting Suit Should Change the Way Copyright Law Determines Joint Authorship
17 Vand. J. of Ent. & Tech. L. 575, Elon University Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2014-07
Number of pages: 97
Posted: 26 Nov 2014
Last Revised: 12 Aug 2015
Accepted Paper Series
University of La Verne College of Law
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298
29.
Cheating and 360-Degree Contracts in the Recorded Music Industry
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 24 Jan 2015
Last Revised: 06 Feb 2015
Working Paper Series
Telecom ParisTech, Telecom ParisTech and Université Paris 13
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297
30.
Musical Tradition in Megalithic Site of Indonesian Gunung Padang?
Number of pages: 3
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 12 Apr 2011
Working Paper Series
Bandung Fe Institute and Bandung Fe Institute
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272
31.
Idols of Development: Transnational Transgender Performance in Thai K-Pop Cover Dance
Kang, Dredge Byung'chu 2014 Idols of Development: Transnational Transgender Performance in Thai K-Pop Cover Dance. Theme issue, “Trans* Cultural Production,” Transgender Studies Quarterly 1(4): 559-571.,
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 10 Dec 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Department of Anthropology
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270
32.
Rap on Trial
Race and Justice 4:185-211
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 08 Feb 2014
Last Revised: 21 Aug 2014
Working Paper Series
University of California, Irvine and University of Richmond
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267
33.
'Copynorms,' Black Cultural Production, and the Debate Over African-American Reparations
Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3, p. 1179, 2008, Thomas Jefferson School of Law Research Paper
No. 1478119
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 24 Sep 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
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261
34.
Three New Choral Selections on African American History
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 26 Aug 2011
Working Paper Series
Independent
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257
35.
Black Contemporary Social Movements, Resource Mobilization, and Black Musical Activism
Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 79, 2016, UGA Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2016-28
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 06 Aug 2016
Accepted Paper Series
University of Georgia School of Law
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250
36.
A Literary Analysis Of ‘XO Tour Llif3’ by Lil Uzi Vert
Number of pages: 5
Posted: 27 Jun 2017
Working Paper Series
Independent
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248
37.
How Copyright Law May Affect Pop Music Without Our Knowing it
UMKC Law Review, Vol. 83, 2014
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 01 Oct 2014
Last Revised: 07 Oct 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Texas A&M University School of Law
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242
38.
Music, Neuroscience, and the Psychology of Well-Being: A Precis
Frontiers in Psychology, 2, 393, 2012
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 18 Jun 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania
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224
39.
Disentangling Investor Sentiment: Mood and Household Attitudes Towards the Economy
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 92
Posted: 12 Feb 2016
Last Revised: 07 Aug 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Leibniz Universität Hannover and Leibniz Universität Hannover
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223
40.
Musical Chairs: A 28-Year Study of the Supply and Demand of Orchestra Musicians in America
Number of pages: 129
Posted: 02 Dec 2013
Working Paper Series
University of Cincinnati
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207
41.
Ups and Downs: Economic and Cultural Effects of File Sharing on Music, Film and Games
Culture and Science, Economic Affairs and Justice, February 2009, Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2012-33, Institute for Information Law Research Paper No. 2012-27
Number of pages: 129
Posted: 24 Feb 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of Amsterdam - Institute for Information Law (IViR), TNO Quality of Life - Work and Employment and University of Amsterdam
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205
42.
Music, Musicians, and Information Seeking Behavior: A Case Study on a Community Concert Band
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 27 Jun 2013
Working Paper Series
Ionian University, Ionian University, Ionian University, University of East Anglia (UEA) - Norwich Business School and Ionian University
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204
43.
Foreword: Fair Use in the Digital Age, and Campbell v. Acuff-Rose at 21
Washington Law Review, Vol. 90, No. 2, pp. 579-96, 2015, University of Washington School of Law Research Paper No. 2015-22
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 12 Jul 2015
Accepted Paper Series
University of Washington - School of Law
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189
44.
Conversations with the Law: Irony, Hyperbole and Identity Politics or Sake Pase? Wyclef Jean, Shottas, and Haitian Jack - A Hip-Hop Creole Fusion of Rhetorical Resistance to the Law
Oklahoma City University Law Review, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2009
Number of pages: 65
Posted: 17 Aug 2008
Last Revised: 23 Feb 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Illinois College
Downloads
187
45.
Cybersecurity as Social Responsibility: Business, Music, and the Symphony of Cyber Peace
Indiana Law Journal, 2018, Kelley School of Business Research Paper No. 17-69
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 18 Sep 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Business Law
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187
46.
Creativity, Improvisation, and Risk: Copyright and Musical Innovation
Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 86, No. 5, p. 1829, 2011, UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2012-7
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 17 Feb 2012
Last Revised: 06 Mar 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law
Downloads
183
47.
I Own Therefore I Am: Copyright, Personality, and Soul Music in the Digital Commons
Rutgers School of Law-Newark Research Papers No. 049
Number of pages: 70
Posted: 29 Aug 2009
Working Paper Series
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Law School
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183
48.
Black Swan Records - 1921-1924: From a Swanky Swan to a Dead Duck
Accounting History, November 2003
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 11 Dec 2003
Accepted Paper Series
Nyenrode Business University and Open Polytechnic of New Zealand
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181
49.
Metaphor in Music or Metaphor About Music: A Contribution to the Cooperation of Cognitive Linguistics and Cognitive Musicology
Antović, M. (2014): Metaphor about music or metaphor in music: A contribution to the cooperation of cognitive linguistics and cognitive musicology [Metafora o muzici ili metafora u muzici: jedan prilog za saradnju kognitivne lingvistike i kognitivne muzikologije]. In: Metaphors We Study: Contemporar,
Number of pages: 14
Posted: 19 Feb 2015
Working Paper Series
University of Nis
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170
50.
Music Making History: Africa Meets Europe in the United States of the Blues
LEADING ISSUES IN AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES, Nikongo Ba'Nikongo, ed., Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press, pp. 189-233, 1997
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 18 Sep 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Independent
Downloads
169
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