1. Moral Dilemma Chris Parich

2. Copyright is an issue of Morality Legality Economics

3. Copyright is an issue of Morality  People deserve to get paid for their work  Who will make art if there is no money in it?  People can't make money from giving away their product for free. Legality Economics

4. Morality People deserve to get paid for their work  A chicken-and-egg issue  Does a person deserve compensation for work?  Or does a person work for compensation?

5. Morality Who will make art if there is no money in it?  Youtube?  Dailymotion?  Value and price are not necessarily the same thing.

6. Morality People can't make money by giving away their product for free.  A straw-man argument  No business can survive without selling a product.  The trick is properly defining the product.  Music can sell merchandise, concert tickets, and artist time while using the music as a marketing tool

7. Copyright is an issue of Morality Legality  What does the RIAA (and friends) say?  What do the courts say? Economics

8. Legality What does the RIAA say?  “Downloading is stealing, just like shoplifting” (paraphrased from riaa.com)  The law is quite clearly against illegal downloading  The Recording Industry loses billions of dollars a year to 'piracy'

9. Legality What do the courts say?  Theft and infringement are different (Downling v. US, 1985)  The law has trouble deciding what is and is not a fair use.  Many government sponsored adjacencies and studies cannot find the correlation between piracy and lost sales, and some find benefits towards the music industry as a whole.

10. Copyright is an issue of Morality Legality Economics  Ignoring moral and legal concerns for artists and producers opens new opportunities  The digital age reduces costs to zero for the barrier of entry into the music industry.

11. Economics Ignoring moral and legal concerns for artists and producers opens new opportunities  Stop worrying about what they ought to be paid  Focus on connecting with those true die- hard fans  Give those fans a good reason to support you and they will.  Earn your pay like everyone else, don't deserve it.

12. Economics The digital age reduces costs to zero for the barrier of entry into the music business.  Recording is your buddy's instruments and your computer  Mastering is your computer  Distribution is zero (bittorrent, limewire, emule, etc)  Promotion is automatic

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14. Success Stories Chinese, Indian, Nigerian Film Industry  Rampant 'piracy'  Combined 3500 films per year  4x output of Hollywood Nine Inch Nails Turbine (Dungeons & Dragons MMO) Jonathan Coulton Jill Sobule Jonathan Coulton

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