1.
Copyright and the World's Most Popular Song
56 Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. 335 (2009) , GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 392
Number of pages: 69
Posted: 21 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 12 Oct 2019
Accepted Paper Series
George Washington University - Law School
Downloads
10,751
2.
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
Downloads
4,668
3.
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
Downloads
2,394
4.
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
Downloads
1,733
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
George Washington University Law School
Downloads
1,723
6.
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
Downloads
1,557
7.
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
Downloads
1,417
8.
Virus Shook the Streaming Star: Estimating the COVID-19 Impact on Music Consumption
Number of pages: 118
Posted: 05 Aug 2020
Last Revised: 15 Dec 2020
Working Paper Series
College of Business, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), College of Business, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), City University of New York (CUNY) - Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems & Statistics and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads
1,168
9.
Whose Music is it Anyway? How We Came to View Musical Expression as a Form of Property
Number of pages: 93
Posted: 08 Dec 2003
Accepted Paper Series
American University Washington College of Law
Downloads
1,098
10.
Homophobia in Jamaica: A Study of Cultural Heterosexism in Praxis
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 01 Jul 2012
Working Paper Series
Marlboro College
Downloads
986
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
Gunderson Dettmer et al., LLP
Downloads
945
12.
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
898
13.
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
Downloads
895
14.
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
Downloads
875
15.
Did the COVID-19 Pandemic Trigger Nostalgia? Evidence of Music Consumption on Spotify
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 23 Aug 2020
Last Revised: 25 Aug 2020
Working Paper Series
Faculty of Law, KU Leuven
Downloads
794
16.
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
Downloads
681
17.
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
Downloads
678
18.
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
Downloads
614
19.
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
Downloads
611
20.
Piracy and Creation: The Case of the Music Industry
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 07 Feb 2012
Working Paper Series
Télécom Paris, Telecom ParisTech and Université Paris 13
Downloads
583
21.
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 (CUNY) - Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems & Statistics and City University of New York - Department of Statistics and Computer Information Systems
Downloads
534
22.
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
Downloads
532
23.
A Literary Analysis Of ‘XO Tour Llif3’ by Lil Uzi Vert
Number of pages: 5
Posted: 27 Jun 2017
Working Paper Series
Mountaintop Ghostwriting
Downloads
509
24.
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
Downloads
509
25.
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
Downloads
502
26.
Simon Reynolds, Retromania and the Atemporality of Contemporary 'Pop'
Discipline 2 (2012), 156-164
Number of pages: 9
Posted: 15 Feb 2020
Working Paper Series
University of Melbourne (Law)
Downloads
499
27.
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
Downloads
489
28.
MP3: The End of Copyright as We Know it?
Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference Law And Technology, August 9-12 1999, pp. 32-37, Honolulu, Hawaii
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 02 Jun 2008
Accepted Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads
484
29.
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
Downloads
440
30.
Copyright Levies as an Alternative Compensation Method for Recording Artists and Technological Development
Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 25-39, 2005
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 21 Jul 2008
Accepted Paper Series
Aalto University - Institute of Strategy and Intl. Business and Aalto University - School of Science and Technology
Downloads
418
31.
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
Downloads
413
32.
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
Downloads
409
33.
Moby Dylan: An Analysis of Bob Dylan’s Summary of Moby-Dick in His 2017 Nobel Lecture
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 13 Jun 2017
Last Revised: 19 Jun 2017
Working Paper Series
Fitchburg, Massachusetts
Downloads
402
34.
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
Downloads
389
35.
'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
Southwwstern Law School
Downloads
387
36.
Revitalizing the Lawyer-Poet: What Lawyers Can Learn from Rock and Roll
Widener Law Journal, Symposium on The Lawyer as Poet Advocate: Bruce Springsteen and the American Lawyer, Vol. 14, p. 907, 2005, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 908897
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 22 Jan 2020
Last Revised: 22 Jan 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Fordham University School of Law
Downloads
378
37.
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
Downloads
375
38.
'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 Télécom Paris
Downloads
372
39.
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
Downloads
364
40.
Technological Advances Have Changed the Music Industry in a Way That Potentially Benefits Independent Musicians.
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 31 Mar 2018
Working Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads
359
41.
Pop Culture's Influence on Recreational Marijuana Use & Legislation: A Case Study on Snoop Dogg
Ohio State Public Law Working Paper No. 507, Drug Enforcement and Policy Center, No. 14, October 2019
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 12 Oct 2019
Working Paper Series
Independent
Downloads
346
42.
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
Samford University - Cumberland School of Law
Downloads
332
43.
Lyrical Assault: Dancehall Versus the Cultural Imperialism of the North-West
Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, Vol. 17, p. 231, 2008, Saint Louis U. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2008-04
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 09 Nov 2008
Accepted Paper Series
University of Hawaii at Manoa - William S. Richardson School of Law
Downloads
331
44.
Figurative Language Used in One Direction’s Album Entitled Up All Night
ELITE Journal Volume 05 Number 01, June 2018
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 26 Feb 2020
Accepted Paper Series
STIE AAS Surakarta
Downloads
330
45.
The Music Act of ‘Kosovo’ and Its Semantic Resonances in International Criminal Trials: An Oral Epic Poetry Case Study Toward a Cognitive Approach to Analysis, Investigations and Prosecutions
Siegel, D., Bovenkerk, F. (Eds.) Crime and Music (Springer International Publishing 2021)
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 12 Jun 2020
Last Revised: 12 Jan 2021
Accepted Paper Series
University of Connecticut, Human Rights Institute
Downloads
324
46.
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
Downloads
317
47.
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
Downloads
313
48.
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
Downloads
291
49.
Digital Sampling v. Appropriation Art: Why Is One Stealing and the Other Fair Use? A Proposal for a Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Digital Music Sampling
Number of pages: 77
Posted: 16 Aug 2018
Working Paper Series
Golden Gate University School of Law
Downloads
275
50.
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
Downloads
271
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