Post-transactional forms of market relations in the music industry

Shifting Understandings of Music as Property

The panel presents a series of engagements with commercial practices of music in India under different institutional settings and technological contexts. The central problematic concerns “shifting understandings of music as property”, including both the tensions this evokes and the possibilities it provides in specific milieus.

Locations of property, within the context of an emerging knowledge economy, are beset with structural, juridical and ethical ambiguities. The resolution of such ambiguities may have a profound impact on the changing relations within the industry, particularly among the producers, retailers, studios, artists and not the least the final users.

We would like therefore to more carefully trace from earlier times the emerging forms of organisational tensions, distributive challenges, the legal and transactional anxieties, the incubation of newer business models, in our grappling with how the music industry attempts to negotiate its way around such ambiguities.

Presenters:
1. Vibodh Parthasarathi: Changing organisation of music in India with the advent of disembodied (recorded) music and emergent notions of property and infringement, including in merchandising music.

2. Ratnakar Tripahy: Resurgent music culture catalysed by digital technologies and revival of concert platforms imparting fluidity in sub-regional music, and related cinema/TV, markets.

3. Madhukar Sinha: Economics of music rights in the context of copyright piracy and issues of access to musical works by consumers leading to newer business models.

4. Shishir Jha: Nature of post-transactional forms of market relations, with specific emphasis on trends in the creation and operationalisation of alternative producers-distributor/retailer-users/listener relations.

Date: 
9 OCTOBER TUESDAY
Start time: 
11:00
Venue: 
Conference Room 1
Title (author 1): 
Prof
First names (author 1): 
Shishir Kumar
Surname (author 1): 
Jha
Institution: 
Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay
Country: 
INDIA
presentation type: 
panel