The Music Industry and Its Digital Future: Introducing MP3 Technology
- Topics:
- Music
- Tags:
- Business Operations,
- Personal Technology,
- Music,
- MP3,
- Intellectual Property,
- Industry,
- Digital Music,
- Digital Media,
- Consumer Electronics,
- Research & Development
- Source:
- Idea Group
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Overview: Since the invention of the phonograph by Thomas Edison, the recording industry has controlled the music that ends up on the turntable, or in the eight-track, cassette deck, compact disc ("CD") player, and mini-disc player. The sudden popularity of compressed digital music has stirred up a hornet of intellectual property issues. However, who will control the digital music player is anybody's guess. The introduction of a new technology known as "MP3," which stands for Moving Picture Experts Group, or MPEG, Audio Layer have forever changed the way the music is distributed and shaken the very foundation upon which the industry was built.
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Format: PDF | Size: 64KB | Date: Apr 2002 | Pages: 23



