SSRN Music Research & Composition Network

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

Peter C. DiCola

Northwestern University School of Law

Downloads 3,603

2.

Jay-Z’s 99 Problems, Verse 2: A Close Reading with Fourth Amendment Guidance for Cops and Perps

St. Louis University Law Journal, Vol. 56, No. 567, 2012

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 13 Aug 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Caleb E. Mason

Brown White & Osborn LLP

Downloads 2,068

3.

Gangstas, Thugs, and Hustlas: Identity and the Code of the Street in Rap Music

Social Problems, Vol. 52, pp. 360-378, 2005

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 26 Mar 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Charis E. Kubrin

University of California, Irvine

Downloads 1,837

4.

Are Streaming and Other Music Consumption Modes Substitutes or Complements?

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 18 Mar 2012

Working Paper Series

Godefroy Dang Nguyen, Sylvain Dejean and François Moreau

M@rsouin, CEREGE, University of La Rochelle and Université Paris 13

Downloads 1,765

5.

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

Paul Butler

George Washington University Law School

Downloads 1,469

6.

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

Olufunmilayo Arewa

University of California, Irvine School of Law

Downloads 1,188

7.

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

Tim Paul Thomes

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Downloads 1,086

8.

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

Carmen Fonseca-Mora, C. Toscano-Fuentes and K. Wermke

University of Huelva, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN

Downloads 989

9.

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

Alex B. Long

University of Tennessee College of Law

Downloads 771

10.

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

Andrea Dennis

University of Georgia School of Law

Downloads 652

11.

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

Jake H Richardson V

Gunderson Dettmer et al., LLP

Downloads 645

12.

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

Michael A. Carrier

Rutgers Law School

Downloads 554

13.

Why this Kolaveri Di: Maddening Phenomenon of Earworm

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 08 Dec 2011

Working Paper Series

Divya Singhal

Goa Institute of Management, Goa

Downloads 516

14.

Piracy and Creation: The Case of the Music Industry

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 07 Feb 2012

Working Paper Series

Maya Bacache, Marc Bourreau and François Moreau

Telecom ParisTech, Telecom ParisTech and Université Paris 13

Downloads 509

15.

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

Aram Sinnreich

American University School of Communication

Downloads 501

16.

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

Toni Lester

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Downloads 492

17.

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

Olufunmilayo Arewa

University of California, Irvine School of Law

Downloads 483

18.

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

Karl Reiner Lang and Jerald Hughes

City University of New York (CUNY) - Department of Statistics and Computer Information Systems and City University of New York - Department of Statistics and Computer Information Systems

Downloads 466

19.

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

andré douglas pond cummings

The John Marshall Law School

Downloads 456

20.

If You Shoot My Dog, I Ma Kill Yo’ Cat: An Enquiry into the Principles of Hip-Hop Law

Ars Aequi 62 (2013), pp. 99-108

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 10 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Jan M. Smits, Andrei Ernst, Steven Iseger and Nida Riaz

Maastricht University Faculty of Law - Maastricht European Private Law Institute (M-EPLI), Maastricht University, Maastricht University and Maastricht University

Downloads 429

21.

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

Robert G. Hammond

North Carolina State University

Downloads 425

22.

Homophobia in Jamaica: A Study of Cultural Heterosexism in Praxis

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 01 Jul 2012

Working Paper Series

Angela R. Allyn

Marlboro College

Downloads 416

23.

How Learning a Musical Instrument Affects the Development of Skills

SOEPpaper No. 591

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 11 Oct 2013

Working Paper Series

Adrian Hille and Jürgen Schupp

German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 401

24.

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

Jack M. Balkin

Yale University - Law School

Downloads 384

25.

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

Olufunmilayo Arewa

University of California, Irvine School of Law

Downloads 349

26.

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

Lakeyta Bonnette

Georgia State University

Downloads 339

27.

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

James Parker

University of Melbourne (Law)

Downloads 322

28.

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

Thomas Wuil Joo

University of California, Davis - School of Law

Downloads 316

29.

Rearranging the Roles of the Performer and the Composer in the Music Industry – The Potential Significance of Fisher v. Brooker

Intellectual Property Quarterly, Vol. 1, pp. 64-76, 2012

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 05 Apr 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Luke McDonagh

City University London - The City Law School

Downloads 285

30.

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

Alexa Klebanow and Tim Wu

Columbia University, Law School, Students and Columbia University - Law School

Downloads 284

31.

Song Structure and Phenomenology: Text and Music in 'Mr. Tambourine Man'

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 04 Feb 2010

Working Paper Series

Ole Kühl

Dept of Musicology, Univeristy of Oslo

Downloads 281

32.

Moral Rights: Principles, Practice and New Technology

MORAL RIGHTS: PRINCIPLES, PRACTICE AND NEW TECHNOLOGY, Oxford University Press, New York, 2011

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 11 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Mira T. Sundara Rajan

University of Oxford - Magdalen College

Downloads 278

33.

'Selling Less of More'? The Impact of Digitization on Record Companies

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 28 Feb 2012

Working Paper Series

Marc Bourreau, Michel Gensollen, François Moreau and Patrick Waelbroeck

Telecom ParisTech, Telecom Paris Tech, Université Paris 13 and Telecom ParisTech

Downloads 275

34.

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

Timothy John McFarlin

University of La Verne College of Law

Downloads 270

35.

Raza Islamica: Prisons, Hip Hop & Converting Converts

Berkeley La Raza Law Journal, Vol. 22, No. 1, 2012

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 03 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 28 Feb 2014

Accepted Paper Series

SpearIt

Texas Southern University - Thurgood Marshall School of Law

Downloads 269

36.

Netlabel: Independent Non-Profit Micro-Enterprise or Just Another Player in the Music Industry?

ECONOMY IN CHANGING SOCIETY: CONSUMPTIONS, MARKETS, ORGANIZATIONS AND SOCIAL POLICIES, p. 173, M. Nawojczyk, ed., Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 21 Mar 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Patryk Galuszka

University of Lodz - Institute of Economics

Downloads 262

37.

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

Maya Bacache-Beauvallet, Marc Bourreau and François Moreau

Telecom ParisTech, Telecom ParisTech and Université Paris 13

Downloads 254

38.

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

Rolan Mauludy and Hokky Situngkir

Bandung Fe Institute and Bandung Fe Institute

Downloads 253

39.

Three New Choral Selections on African American History

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 26 Aug 2011

Working Paper Series

William Franklin Gross

Independent

Downloads 252

40.

'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

K. J. Greene

Thomas Jefferson School of Law

Downloads 238

41.

Traditional Culture: A Step Forward for Protection in Indonesia

Ford Foundation, May 2010, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2010-16

Number of pages: 127 Posted: 30 May 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Peter A. Jaszi

American University - Washington College of Law

Downloads 232

42.

Misogyny in Rap Music: A Content Analysis of Prevalence and Meanings

Men and Masculinities, Vol. 12, pp. 3-29, 2009

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 26 Mar 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Ronald Weitzer and Charis E. Kubrin

George Washington University - Department of Sociology and University of California, Irvine

Downloads 229

43.

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

Peter K. Yu

Texas A&M University School of Law

Downloads 220

44.

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

Charis E. Kubrin and Erik Nielson

University of California, Irvine and University of Richmond

Downloads 220

45.

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

Dredge Byung'chu Kang

Department of Anthropology

Downloads 214

46.

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

SpearIt

Texas Southern University - Thurgood Marshall School of Law

Downloads 207

47.

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

Adam M. Croom

University of Pennsylvania

Downloads 202

48.

The Feeling of Infinity: Late Beethoven and the Aesthetics of the Sublime and the Beautiful

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 16 Apr 2012

Working Paper Series

Christopher Kennedy Bader

Saint Louis University School of Law

Downloads 201

49.

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

Natali Helberger, Annelies Huygen and Nico Van Eijk

University of Amsterdam - Institute for Information Law (IViR), TNO Quality of Life - Work and Employment and University of Amsterdam

Downloads 188

50.

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

Petros A. Kostagiolas, Charilaos Lavranos, Sozon Papavlasopoulos, Nikolaos Korfiatis and Joseph Papadatos

Ionian University, Ionian University, Ionian University, University of East Anglia (UEA) - Norwich Business School and Ionian University

Downloads 186

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