1. Music Piracy - Online Documentation Project –
LIB 1201 – Research & Documentation for
the Information Age
Marcelo Avila
Sung Soo Moon

2. 1. Theme for Individual Research
Plagiarism in Music (Marcelo)
- Through the music history, famous cases of music plagiarism have come to our knowledge.
- Copyright law considers music infringement even when a song is copied subconsciously or coincidentally.
Change Of Profit Structure of the Music Industry (Soo)
- The mainstream of the music industry have been moving from the analog to the digital.
- The music market has been minimizing due to change of consumer’s behavior and the music piracy.

3. Change Of Profit Structure of the Music Industry
2. Common Theme
Plagiarism in Music
Change Of Profit Structure of the Music Industry
Music Piracy

4. 3. Outline for Research
1. What is the music piracy ? a. Definition b. Current situation of music piracy
2. Influence of music piracy a. Economic point of view b. Ethic and consumption pattern’s point of view
3. How has the music industry coped with music piracy? a. Lawsuits b. Technical protection                c. Amendment for the Copyright
4. Conclusion

5. 4. Summary of the Research
Music piracy is one of the reasons that reduce the scale of the music market.
Piracy can be problematic not only for music industry but also for ourselves. (Tax)
The change of music consumption pattern make piracy easy.
Simple strategies to prevent piracy will only make the market worse. (Lawsuits)

6.  What we are required. consumers’ ethics in copyrights.
Adaptation of the music industry to the situational change.

7. SouthPark - Piracy

8. 5. Summary of Processing Find a common theme for our research project
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10. References
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International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (2010). What is piracy?. Retrieved from
Jones, K.C (2007, Aug. 22). Music piracy costs U.S. economy $12.5 billion, Report Reveals. The InformationWeek, Retrieved from tml?articleID=
Marshall, R ( 2010, Mar. 11). Government panders to music industry in copyright debate. V3.co.uk, Retrieved from music
Parker,T. & Stone, M. (2003, Nov.28). Christian rock hard [Episode 709]. Southparkstudios. Retrieved from