Copyrights, MP3 and the New Recording Industry in Brazil – Amplificar

Copyrights, MP3 and the New Recording Industry in Brazil

Resumo

This article discusses the transformation of the recording industry since the 90s caused by MP3, that, in a first look, has been held responsible for the decline in record sales and to have promoted phonographic pirating on a world scale. In this summary, concepts like authorship and copyrights have been reviewed in light of this technology while at the same time discusses its creative potential and capacity to democratize sound production. Particularly, the Brazilian market has been subject of a major transformation for web usage, with other sound productions models, bringing with them discussions about technological appropriation and digital inclusion inside the Brazilian cultural industry. With the new discussions about copyright that may drastically limit the use of the web as a tool for music distribution, it is necessary to reflect on the issues of copyright and to think in new models of distribution and circulation of music. Recent events as SOPA (Stop Online Piracy) and PIPA (Protect Intellectual Property Act), and the arrest of the founder o Megaupload link to a series of developments that will bring a new approach about copyright in the coming year.

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