Ruth Towse Professor In Economics Of Creative Industries at Bournemouth University
"Ruth Towse is Professor of Economics of Creative Industries and Co-Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management. She is also Professor Emerita of Erasmus University Rotterdam. She held previous posts in economics at Middlesex University, Thammasat University Bangkok (Thailand), the Institute of Education, University of London, City University (Department of Arts Policy and Management), the London School of Economics and at the University of Exeter."
"Staff Profile Pages." Professor Ruth Towse. http://staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk/display/rtowse. Web. 10 Nov. 2014
Link to article: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2381882
In the article "The Economic Effects of Digitization on the Administration of Musical Copyrights", Ruth Towse discusses how digitization of music has had "profound effects on the management of musical copyrights in terms of data requirements and has vastly increased the volume of transactions... both impacts [raising] net costs of administration to collecting societies" (55). In lament's terms, Towse says that digitization of music has had a severe impact on the copyright industry because of the increase in the technical work needed. She sites numerous logical sources, giving facts and numbers, stating the increase in difficulty of patenting music, and licensing procedures.
She states that her article "begins with a description of the type of changes that digitization has brought about for the services of licensing of music and new office procedures in the collecting society and then considers the possible impact on the economic organization of collecting societies in general" (55). To put into shorter terms, she discusses how, because of the increase in the variety of how to sell, patent, and control music distribution, many many more licenses and ways of copyrighting music has become more strenuous, more difficult, and all-over a more detrimental impact. The licensing procedures have extended to Online Licensing, Multi-Territorial Licensing, and "Front" and "Back" Office Licensing Procedures (57). This entails such a wide variety of copyrights that it is almost too much. Too many copyrights are being made, and there is too much to handle in the licensing office becuase of the digitization of music. Because of the technological advancements in music, and the ever-increasing human desire to own what they they is theirs, otherwise known as the selfish nature of humans, the licensing office has dug themselves a ditch that, no matter how hard they try, will be increasingly more difficult to get out of as time goes on and technology increases even more. In the article, while Towse does hit some major key points in the increased difficulty of the copyright industry, does not talk about the pros of so much licensing. Hearing that the increase in copyright is doing some good might be good to hear, but otherwise her article seems biased towards digitzation always being bad.
Towse, Ruth, The Economic Effects of Digitization on the Administration of Musical Copyrights (December 31, 2013). Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 2013, 10(2), 55-67. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2381882
"Ruth Towse is Professor of Economics of Creative Industries and Co-Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management. She is also Professor Emerita of Erasmus University Rotterdam. She held previous posts in economics at Middlesex University, Thammasat University Bangkok (Thailand), the Institute of Education, University of London, City University (Department of Arts Policy and Management), the London School of Economics and at the University of Exeter."
"Staff Profile Pages." Professor Ruth Towse. http://staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk/display/rtowse. Web. 10 Nov. 2014
Link to article: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2381882
In the article "The Economic Effects of Digitization on the Administration of Musical Copyrights", Ruth Towse discusses how digitization of music has had "profound effects on the management of musical copyrights in terms of data requirements and has vastly increased the volume of transactions... both impacts [raising] net costs of administration to collecting societies" (55). In lament's terms, Towse says that digitization of music has had a severe impact on the copyright industry because of the increase in the technical work needed. She sites numerous logical sources, giving facts and numbers, stating the increase in difficulty of patenting music, and licensing procedures.
She states that her article "begins with a description of the type of changes that digitization has brought about for the services of licensing of music and new office procedures in the collecting society and then considers the possible impact on the economic organization of collecting societies in general" (55). To put into shorter terms, she discusses how, because of the increase in the variety of how to sell, patent, and control music distribution, many many more licenses and ways of copyrighting music has become more strenuous, more difficult, and all-over a more detrimental impact. The licensing procedures have extended to Online Licensing, Multi-Territorial Licensing, and "Front" and "Back" Office Licensing Procedures (57). This entails such a wide variety of copyrights that it is almost too much. Too many copyrights are being made, and there is too much to handle in the licensing office becuase of the digitization of music. Because of the technological advancements in music, and the ever-increasing human desire to own what they they is theirs, otherwise known as the selfish nature of humans, the licensing office has dug themselves a ditch that, no matter how hard they try, will be increasingly more difficult to get out of as time goes on and technology increases even more. In the article, while Towse does hit some major key points in the increased difficulty of the copyright industry, does not talk about the pros of so much licensing. Hearing that the increase in copyright is doing some good might be good to hear, but otherwise her article seems biased towards digitzation always being bad.
Towse, Ruth, The Economic Effects of Digitization on the Administration of Musical Copyrights (December 31, 2013). Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 2013, 10(2), 55-67. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2381882