Survey
of Music Business
MBU 1110.01 [CRN 20228] 8:00 – 8:50 AM MC 200B
MBU 1110.06 [CRN 20233] 2:00 – 2:50 PM MC 109
Wednesday, January 11, 2006 is the first class
Monday, May 1, 2006 is the last class
Professor: Dr. E. Michael Harrington, Professor of Entertainment and Music Business
http://www.emichaelharrington.com/about_harrington/
Office: Barbara Massey Hall. Room 350. Office hours: TBA
Phone/Voice Mail: 615-460-5473
Classroom: MC 200 B
Email: harringtone@mail.belmont.edu
Final Exam: at the specific time and date scheduled
by Belmont University
Text: The Recording
Industry: (2nd ed.) by Geoffrey
Hull. (2004),
Routledge
Press, New York, New
York ISBN 0-415-96803-8
A sharpened pencil (the pencil and the textbook must be brought to each class)
Internet: The student will frequently be required to read from contemporary online news resources such as the New York Times (reading and downloading are free but registration is necessary), Wired, Tech Law Journal, Future of Music Coalition, Billboard, Hollywood Reporter and others. The NY Times, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Deep Links, Wired, Tech Law Journal, Future of Music Coalition, Billboard, Celebrity Access, and Hollywood Reporter can be found at:
http://www.billboard.com/bb/index.jsp
http://www.celebrityaccess.com/
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com
Because many articles found online are posted for only 24 hours (especially those from the NY Times), students will have to read and/or download articles from the Internet in a timely manner, purchase the articles, or perform a Lexis Nexis search.
Survey of Music Business
This course will be an introductory study of the music industry, that will include an examination of music copyright, recording, engineering, technology, publishing, songwriting, licensing, management, promotion, merchandising, markets and marketing, administration, contracts the Internet and career options in the music industry. It will also include the newest developments and changes in the music industry with special attention give to the fastest changing aspects of the industry – copyright law, the digital transmission of intellectual property, legislation, common law, and the consolidation of power by the Big Four (Vivendi, Sony BMG, EMI and Time Warner).
The textbook, the Belmont University Bunch Library’s resources – books, videos, journals, CD’s, online and physical news resources, including Lexis-Nexis and Westlaw, databases, journals, etc. - will be used as primary resources for the course. In addition, students are encouraged to take advantage of the Nashville Public Library.
Course objectives: To become familiar with the business practices of the music industry, and to a lesser extent, the entertainment industry, and how these industries are evolving in light of globalization, media consolidation, rapid technological advances, changes in business methods and operations, new legislation, and judicial decisions.
Topics To Be Covered: Music copyright, recording, engineering, technology, publishing, songwriting, licensing, management, promotion, merchandising, domestic and foreign markets, marketing, administration, contracts, radio, television, the Internet and career options in the music and entertainment industry.
Class: Students are expected to have completed the assigned readings for each class before the beginning of each class. Students can expect to be tested for their comprehension of the assigned readings for each class at the beginning of each class.
Class attendance: Class attendance is very important as class discussions and lecture material are central to the course. Students are expected to be present when class begins and remain in class until its conclusion. Attendance for each class will be taken. Attending less than 30 minutes of a class meeting is considered 1.0 absence. Arriving late or leaving early is considered 0.5 of an absence, and WILL be factored into the student’s grade. 12.5 absences WILL result in a grade of “F.” This policy applies to all students, including seniors who expect to graduate.
Students who arrive late on the day when a quiz is given will not
be allowed to take the quiz.
Tests: Tests can only be made up if there is an
excused absence, approved in advance by the professor or the Office of the
Provost, and the professor is notified no later than twenty-four hours after
the exam was given. Failure to notify and/or provide a valid, written excuse if
requested will result in a grade of zero.
Quizzes may or may not be announced in advance. Quizzes cannot be made up.
A missed test can be made up only at the date and time scheduled for the Final Exam. The test will be comprehensive in nature and will count in place of the missing test grade. Only one missed test can be made up. It is the student’s responsibility to inform the professor, via email, of his/her intention to take the makeup exam. The professor must be notified of the student’s intention to take the makeup test three (3) days before the date and time of the Final Exam and no earlier than one (1) week prior to the Final Exam time.
Quizzes: Quizzes may or may not be announced. Quizzes cannot be made up.
Homework: Homework will not be accepted late.
Dishonest Behavior/Cheating: All work by a student during the semester, inside or outside of a classroom, is to be done independently, i.e. a student's work is to be his/her own and done without the aid of any person, book, notes, etc. Any work not done independently is considered dishonest behavior/cheating.
During quizzes and tests, ALL
electronic and/or wireless/Wi-Fi devices (cell phones, PDA’s, laptops, etc.)
must be turned off and placed on the floor below the student’s desk.
The class will adhere to the Belmont University Honor System, found at the following site:
http://www.belmont.edu/academics/honorsystem.htm
The Belmont University Student Honor Pledge is stated below:
“I
will not give or receive aid during examinations; I will not give or receive
false or impermissible aid in course work, in the preparation of reports, or in
any other type of work that is to be used by the instructor as the basis of my
grade; I will not engage in any form of academic fraud. Furthermore, I will uphold my responsibility
to see to it that others abide by the spirit and letter of this Honor Pledge.”
The Rehabilitation Act and the
Americans with Disabilities Act:
Accommodation of Disabilities: In compliance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act, Belmont University will provide reasonable accommodation of all medically documented disabilities. If you have a disability and would like the university to provide reasonable accommodations of the disability during this course, please notify Tammye Tanksley, Director of Counseling & Developmental Support in the Office of the Dean of Students (615-460-6407) as soon as possible.
Changes in Syllabus: In the event of unforeseen circumstances, the professor reserves the right to deviate from the syllabus. Also, occasionally special guests will address the class. Students are responsible for learning the content of these lectures, as well as the assigned readings for the particular class. Not all of these guest lectures will cover material assigned for that particular class. As is expected, it will be the student’s responsibility to have read and understood material for each class whether or not the assigned readings for that class are discussed on the day of a guest lecture.
Grading:
13% Test 1
13% Test 2
13% Test 3
13% Test 4
10% participation
13% quizzes
25% FINAL
A+ = 95 - 100
A = 92 - 94
A- = 89 - 91
B+ = 87 – 88
B = 83 – 86
B- = 79 – 82
C+ = 77 – 78
C = 73 – 76
C- = 69 – 72
D+ = 67 – 68
D = 63 – 66
D- = 60 – 62
F = 0 - 59
All work MUST be finished at
least one week prior to the beginning of final exams.
Short of an act of God, a grade of “Incomplete” will never be given.
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Outline of classes:
Week 1 1/11-13 Introduction. pp. 1-26 Chapter 1 – Understanding The Recording Industry
Week 2 1/16 Martin Luther King Day - no class
1/18-20 pp. 27-37 Chapter 2 –Copyright Basics In The Recording Industry
pp. 37-43
Week 3 1/23-27 pp. 45-55 Chapter 3 – Copyright In Sound Recordings And Songs
Review
TEST 1 (pp. 1-55)
Week 4 1/30-2/3 pp. 56-68 Chapter 3 – Copyright In Sound Recordings And Songs
pp. 69-84 Chapter 4 – Music Publishing: The First Stream
pp. 85-96
Week 5 2/6-10 Review
Review
TEST 2
(pp. 56-96)
Week 6 2/13-17 pp. 97-104 Chapter 5 – Live Entertainment: The Second Stream
pp. 104-112
pp. 112-117
Week 7 2/20-24 pp. 117-120
Review
Week 8 2/27-3/3 Review
TEST 3 (pp. 97-120)
Spring Break Saturday, March 4 - Sunday, March 12
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Week 9 3/13-17 pp. 121-130 Chapter 6 – Recordings: The Main Stream
pp. 130-138
pp. 139-153 Chapter 7 – Production and the A & R Function
Week 10 3/20-24 pp. 153-167
pp. 169-175 Chapter 8 – The Marketing Function
MEIEA 2006 University of the Pacific
Week 11 3/27-31 pp. 176-182
pp. 183-189
pp. 189-198
Week 12 4/3-7 pp. 198-204
Review
Review
Week 13 4/10-12 TEST 4 (pp. 121-204)
To be announced
Easter
Break Thursday, April 13 – Sunday,
April 16 No Classes
Week 14 4/17-21 pp. 205-229 Chapter 9 – Retailing: Software on Hard and Soft Copies
pp. 205-229
pp. 231-254 Chapter 10 – The Recording Industry and Other Media
Week 15 4/24-28 pp. 231-254
pp. 255-266 Chapter 11 – The Recording Industry and The Internet
pp. 255-266
Week 16 5/1 Last day of class Review for Final Exam
FINAL Exam: at the specific time and date scheduled by Belmont University
Suggested
Readings/Radio Programs:
http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_copyright.html
http://www.whyy.org/91FM/RadioTimes.html
Search for “E. Michael Harrington”
http://www.goodnightkiss.com/joybutler.html
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3329169
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/policy/2002/08/15/lessig.html
“Paranoia, stupidity and greed ganging up on the public “ by Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News Technology Columnist, May 4, 2002
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/3200101.htm
“Who’s Afraid of Jamie Kellner?” by Lisa Schmeiser, May 27, 2002
http://www.teevee.org/archive/2002/05/27/ Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of Copyrights and copywrongs
http://www.nyu.edu/classes/siva/ Address by Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA). “Re: proposals
for changes to the fair use doctrine in the context of digital and Internet media” March 6, 2001.
http://www.techlawjournal.com/intelpro/20010306boucher.asp
Learn from the Libraries “The digital delivery of intellectual property is our generation's nuclear
Power” by Jim Griffin, February 2000 Issue
http://www.observer.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4177408,00.html PERSPECTIVE by Heather Green
“The American crocodile that swallowed freedom” by John Naughton, Sunday April 29, 2001, The Observer
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2001/tc20010912_1569.htm?mainwindow
“Why the E-Free-Speech Debate Matters” Heather Green September 12, 2001
http://www.culturaleconomics.atfreeweb.com/cpu.htm
The Collected Works of Harry Hillman Chartrand
http://wwwsecure.law.cornell.edu/commentary/intelpro/litrvtxt.htm
“Revising Copyright Law for the Information Age” by Jessica Litman
“Senate May Ram Copyright Bill”” by Michael Grebb, Wired, November 16, 2004
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,65704,00.html
“Piracy rule is definition of misguided” by Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe, October 11, 2004
“SoundExchange: A Digital Primer” by Kristin Thomson, October 13, 2004
http://www.futureofmusic.org/articles/soundexchange.cfm
“Music’s Brighter Future,” The Economist, October 28, 2004
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3329169
“The BitTorrent Effect” Wired, Issue 13.01, January 2005
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.01/bittorrent.html?tw=wn_tophead_2