The promise of commercial music distribution via the Internet is ready to be fulfilled. This talk will describe the technical and legal complexities of online music distribution. It will also present solutions to current online distribution barriers.
Music is a natural product for online delivery.
Digital representations are of desirable quality and only marginal value is added by physical packaging. In fact, delivery of musical information via the Internet has been available for many years. None of this content, however, has been distributed commercially. It is only recently that large amounts of easily accessible, high quality content has been exposed. The natural progression is to commercially distribute this information electronically.