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
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10,927
2.
Virtual Art and Non-fungible Tokens
50 Hofstra Law Review 361 (2022).
Number of pages: 66
Posted: 12 Apr 2021
Last Revised: 31 May 2022
Accepted Paper Series
Prairie View A&M University - College of Business
Downloads
7,787
3.
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
4,984
4.
Beatlemania
Forthcoming, Journal of Beatles Studies, University of Liverpool Press
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 01 Feb 2022
Working Paper Series
Harvard Law School
Downloads
3,489
5.
Virus Shook the Streaming Star: Estimating the COVID-19 Impact on Music Consumption
Marketing Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 74
Posted: 05 Aug 2020
Last Revised: 28 Aug 2021
Working Paper Series
University of Connecticut - Department of Operations & Information Management, 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
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2,937
6.
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
2,552
7.
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
2,031
8.
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
1,827
9.
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
1,791
10.
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
1,700
11.
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
1,535
12.
Homophobia in Jamaica: A Study of Cultural Heterosexism in Praxis
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 01 Jul 2012
Working Paper Series
Marlboro College
Downloads
1,140
13.
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
1,116
14.
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
Institut Teknologi Bisnis AAS Indonesia
Downloads
1,033
15.
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
981
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
Independent
Downloads
970
17.
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
944
18.
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
911
19.
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
817
20.
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
University of Pittsburgh - School of Law
Downloads
817
21.
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
788
22.
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
737
23.
The Effect of Music Streaming Websites to the Academic Performance of College Students in Panabo City
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 31 Mar 2020
Working Paper Series
Davao del Norte State College, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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652
24.
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
648
25.
A Literary Analysis Of ‘XO Tour Llif3’ by Lil Uzi Vert
Number of pages: 5
Posted: 27 Jun 2017
Working Paper Series
Mountaintop Ghostwriting
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632
26.
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
625
27.
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
625
28.
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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602
29.
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
595
30.
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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569
31.
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
562
32.
Diving into the Waves of Fan Fiction: K-Pop Girl Group Fandom and Queer Empowerment through User-generated Literature
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 18 Feb 2021
Last Revised: 10 Mar 2021
Working Paper Series
Central Luzon State University
Downloads
535
33.
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
523
34.
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
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491
35.
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
California Western School of Law, Students
Downloads
486
36.
'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
479
37.
Philip Ewell’s White Racial Framework in Music Theory and Cognitive Science
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 01 Apr 2021
Working Paper Series
Independent
Downloads
473
38.
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
470
39.
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
461
40.
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
453
41.
'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
452
42.
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
446
43.
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
430
44.
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
429
45.
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
425
46.
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
University of Detroit Mercy School of Law
Downloads
419
47.
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
405
48.
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
398
49.
Effectiveness of Classroom Assessment Techniques in Improving Performance of Students in Music and Piano
Global Researchers Journal, volume 6, issue 1, p. 68 - 78, 2019
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 12 Feb 2021
Last Revised: 17 Nov 2021
Working Paper Series
Philippine Normal University
Downloads
371
50.
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
358
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