Award for best scientific article
Arnt Maasø, researcher in the MUSEC-project, received The Norwegian Asscociation of media researchers' award for best scientific article of the year:
Maasø, Arnt og Hendrik Storstein Spilker (2022): The Streaming Paradox: Untangling the Hybrid Gatekeeping Mechanisms of Music Streaming. Popular Music and Society.
Book published
Anja Nylund Hagen, researcher in the MUSEC-project, with colleagues have published a book (open access):
Hagen, Anja Nylund, Mari Torvik Heian, Roy Aulie Jacobsen og Bård Kleppe (2021): Fra plate til plattform: Norsk musikk ut i verden. Oslo: Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
About the project
The use of digital media technology is fundamentally changing the ways in which cultural content, such as music and film, is produced and distributed, and the opportunities for earning revenue. By exploring the uses and implications of new media, the project unpacked one of the most challenging issues of the cultural sector in the 2000s: How should art and creative work be paid for?
By uniting scholars in media, music, economics and copyright, the project carried out interdisciplinary analyses of how artists and organisations maintain their professional ambitions, economic interests and intellectual property rights (IPR) in the face of new media services. The analyses zoomed in on negotiations between producers and distributors, competition in national and global markets, and the effects of state intervention.
Through qualitative interviews, quantitative surveys, document analysis and case studies, the project offered new contributions to the study and discussion of the economics and copyright of music.
The project started in December 2017 and ended in January 2021.
Cooperation
The project was led by Yngvar Kjus at the Department of Musicology at the University of Oslo. The research team comprised Arnt Maasø from the Department of Media and Communication (UiO), Anja Nylund Hagen from the Department of Musicology (UiO), Olav Torvund from the Department of Private Law (UiO) and Ruth Towse from Bournemouth University.
Financing
The project was financed by the KULMEDIA-programme of the Research Council of Norway.
For more information, see the project description (pdf).
Publications
Book
Hagen, Anja Nylund, Mari Torvik Heian, Roy Aulie Jacobsen og Bård Kleppe (2021): Fra plate til plattform: Norsk musikk ut i verden. Oslo: Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
Articles and chapters
Kjus, Yngvar and Roy Aulie Jacobsen (2022): Will the EU's directive on copyright in the digital market change the power balance of the music industry? Views from Norway. The Nordic Journal of Cultural Policy 25(1), 28-42.
Kjus, Yngvar, Hendrik S. Spilker and Håvard Kiberg (2022): Liveness online in deadly times: How artists explored the expressive potential of live-streaming concerts at the face of Covid-19 in Norway. First Monday 27(6).
Hagen, Anja Nylund (2022): Musikkforlagenes rolle i den digitale musikkbransjen. I Musikerne, bransjen og samfunnet, Sigrid Røyseng, Heidi Stavrum og John Vinge (red.), Oslo: Cappelen Damm Akademisk, 173-198.
Maasø, Arnt og Hendrik Storstein Spilker (2022): The Streaming Paradox: Untangling the Hybrid Gatekeeping Mechanisms of Music Streaming. Popular Music and Society.
Kjus, Yngvar (2022): Twists and turns in the 360 deal: Spinning the risks and rewards of artist–label relations in the streaming era. European Journal of Cultural Studies 25(2), 463-478.
Kjus, Yngvar (2022): License to stream? A study of how rights-holders have responded to music streaming services in Norway. International Journal of Cultural Policy 28(1), 61-73.
Hagen, Anja Nylund (2021): Datafication, Literacy and Democratization in the Music Industry. Popular Music and Society.
Hagen, Anja Nylund (2020): Music in streams: Communicating music in the streaming paradigm, in Michael Filimowicz & Veronika Tzankova (red.), Reimagining Communication: Mediation. Routledge.
Kjus, Yngvar and Hendrik S. Spilker (2020): Lyden av digitalisering: Preludium om musikk og medier, Norsk medietidsskrift.
Towse, Ruth (2020): Dealing with digital: the economic organisation of streamed music, Media, Culture & Society.
Maasø, Arnt and Anja Nylund Hagen (2019): Metrics and decision-making in music streaming, Popular Communication.
Kjus, Yngvar (2019): The use of copyright in digital times: A study of how artists exercise their rights in Norway Popular Music and Society.
Spilker, Hendrik, Yngvar Kjus, Håvard Kiberg (forthcoming): Nødløsninger med langtidsvirkninger: Artisters og konsertarrangørers erfaringer med direktestrømmede "koronakonserter", i Digital kultur, Estetiske praksiser, Knut Ove Eliassen, Anne Ogundipe og Øyvind Prytz (red.) Kulturrådets bokserie.
Further work is in progress and under review.
Reports
Hagen, Anja Nylund, Mari Torvik Heian, Roy Aulie Jacobsen and Bård Kleppe (2020): Digital ambivalens. Norsk musikk i internasjonale markeder
Master theses
Skjerdal, Øyvind (2020): Rettigheter og muligheter. Betydningen av opphavsrett for dem som skaper musikk.
Evensen, Henrik (2020): Opplevelsen av musikk på radio og i strømmetjenester.
In the media
We have released a special issue on music and digital media in Norsk medietidsskrift (in Norwegian), 27(3).
"Vil ha opphavsretten ut av lukkede rom (ballade.no, in Norwegian)", Yngvar Kjus, comment in Ballade.no 7. januar 2020.
"Musikkbransjen er ikke så digital som vi tror (dn.no, in Norwegian)", Anja Nylund Hagen in Dagens Næringsliv 14. mars 2019.
"Norsk musikk i internasjonale markeder (bylarm.no, in Norwegian)", by:Larm 28 February 2019.
"Tillitskrise for Tidal og tech (dn.no, in Norwegian)", Arnt Maasø in Dagens Næringsliv, 11 May 2018.
MUSEC session at by:Larm at 1 pm on 1 March 2018.
"Dur eller moll for norsk musikk? (dn.no, in Norwegian)", Yngvar Kjus in Dagens Næringsliv, 17 December 2017.
Introduction to copyright law: http://www.copyrightuser.org