MC536 Music Online

Streaming music online is continuously received by and normally displayed to an online user, while it is being delivered by the provider. An advantage about streaming music online is the essential quick and speedy service an online user is given. An artist’s music can be streamed either in its entirety, or in short samples. This benefits the promotion and exposure of an artist, plus the accessibility areas from a fans perspective. It introduces cheaper savings and costs to an audience interested in streaming music, as they will listen firstly online, then perhaps, purchase the record at a later date. This increases customers as more music can be heard free and legally before purchasing the record in its entirety.

A disadvantage about streaming music online is the use of particular streaming systems which prevent the ability to record streams for playback later on. Broadcasters become concerned about a lost in sales and the issue of consumers skipping advertising commercials. An issue of whether users have the right to record streams has become a significant issue within the music online industry. It is impossible to prevent a user from recording a media stream that has been delivered to their computer. However, the use of DRM (Digital Rights Management) controls the reproduction and content that can be streamed, resulting in the need of a license to unblock the files. Streams my also be encrypted by a broadcaster, making it difficult for users to record music, therefore contributing to the economic factors which are important in the music enterprise.

The Creative Commons is a non-profit, charitable corportation, providing free tools for people who want to license their work on generous terms, people who want to make creative uses of those works, and people who benefit from this symbiosis. Referring to artists, musicians, teachers, scholars, scientists, writers, photographers, filmmakers, etc, anyone who will gain from the use of our tools. The purpose for doing so is to allow people to license their work via much easier and reliable methods, gaining further exposure and widespread distribution that copyright doesn’t always offer.

The Creative Commons was founded in 2001 by Lawrence Lessig, a Stamford Law Professor. Based in Massachusetts, US. Lawrence Lessig, one of America’s most influential public intellectuals devised a book entitled, “Free Culture”, were he discusses the concepts between piracy and property in the intellectual property, referring to exclusive rights such as copyright, etc.

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A venue is simply a location for an event, in most cases a live performance consisting of bands/artists. They are privately or publicly funded, located within every city and town across the world. It can be in-doors or out-doors, in the shape of a bar, pub, club, arena, basement, etc etc.

There are many many venues in the city of Birmingham, ranging from large to small, catering for a variety of acts and genres. Large venues include; The NEC, The NEC Arena and The NIA, each being a major tourist attraction, bringing in fans right across the country. Medium size venues include; The Birmingham Barfly, The Birmingham Academy, thus being regular locations for signed and unsigned artists of smaller fame. Many pubs and clubs also hold live performances, examples of which being; The Flapper and Firkin, Scruffy Murphy’s, The Rainbow and so on. These type of venues often accommodate local bands on a weekly basis for low prices.

It is manatory for a venue to hold a license, thus ensuring all legal requirements are maintained efficiently. Licences to sell alcohol and stage live music are a must. Tickets purchased for live events can be accessible online or at any appropriate ticket outlet. Websites such as www.ticketweb.co.uk support easy and simplistic methods of gaining tickets for a performance, including a summary of a performance soon to occurr, plus venue information, directions and all the usual conventions which are common for a ticket selling website.

The most common features which distinguish a venue include a bar, stage, PA System, lighting rig, seating, security, equipment, audiences and of course the bands/artists themselves. Every venue will also contain their own set of health and safety regulations, thus being an important legal requirement.

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