COPYRIGHTS AND COMPETITION: Towards Policy Implications for Music Business Development

This paper analyses the relationship between the copyright and income generation in the audiovisual sector, in particular music, and argues that the appropriate copyright administration is essential in creating the conditions for a viable music industry in developing countries.(Vanus James, Consultant - 2000)

Schumpeterian Innovation and Competition in the Music Industry: Some Implications for Institutional Policy

This paper considers the process of capital accumulation in the knowledge-intensive service sector. Our special concern is the music industry. The knowledge-intensive service sector is emerging as the dominant component of the modern industrial economy (Machlup, 1962; Porat, 1977; Lundvall and Borras, 1997:115, Andersen et al 2000 forthcoming). (Prof. Vanus James, Consultant)

The Caribbean Music Industry Database (CMID), 2000

In the report of the Joint UNCTAD/WIPO Programming Mission, the aims of this CMID project are stated as:
(a) creating a music industry dataset including a status report on the copyright regime and the collective management strategy;
(b) developing a methodology to measure and evaluate the actual and potential economic contribution of the music sector to the economic performance of Cuba, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago; and
(c) applying this methodology in the three host countries.