CRI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Creative Industries
2 Apr 2016
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Publishing rights: songwriters have the right to receive the residual revenue of the selling distribuion of the record/song, but the publisher usually gets the money. Vehicles for symbolic messages/ carriers of meaning ( catchy tunes) Contain potenial for creaion of intellectual property (crucial, a million albums a month for eighteen months) Creaive industries always has to deal with the intellectual property. They were singing in the purpose of creaing intellectual property. Tension between the band members were pushing on each other to make more albums. Sing an original song vs. singing another song as a band. Wasn"t interested in doing what would give them more money, doing art for art"s sake. Success was based on the number of records sold, which was controlled by people. They make money because people like what they do, and pay them. Don"t get the art that they need, they get the art that people want.
