describes the world around them. In a sense‚ it is how the organism perceives the world through their eyes. Even though we may share the same surroundings‚ we as humans‚ do not share an umwelt with nonhuman animals. In De Waal’s book‚ “Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?”‚ he gives me a better understanding of the term Umwelt. He explains his experience with raising jackdaws‚ and their ability to fly. De Waal’s enters the world of flying by viewing them on a daily basis‚ this leads him to
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Objective: Viability of Napster as a revenue generating company. Case in brief: Napster is a brainchild of Shawn fanning‚ launched on June 1 ‚1999 as a peer-to-peer music downloading program for college students. Napster became a one of the most popular sites on the internet‚ claiming some 15 million users in little more than a year. From the beginning‚ Napster facing so many problems from the RIAA and music industry players. Napster violated the copyrights by allowing users to swap the music recordings
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and were averaging around 20 releases a year. With 40% of its albums selling over 5‚000 units‚ Compass Records turned a profit on 80% of its titles in 2005. Brown and West also acquired a $100‚000 recording studio in May 2004 in order to give the label and its artists more flexibility in the creative process and save $500 a day on studio rental. Problems * (General) Licensing vs. Producing and Own * Compass Records has to decide between licensing the finished recordings‚ which is
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Aqsw12 When you first start a business the first thing you should do is plan out what it’s going to take to achieve your goals and make the company successful. You should write down the goals you want to achieve and how long you are going to give yourself to make the goals happen. This gives you something to work toward and to improve your business until you reach the goals you have set for yourself. One of the first things that should be done is figure out the startup
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__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. What was the first record label that signed her to a recording contract? ___________________________________ 4. As a result of her time with that record label‚ what nickname did that label receive? ____________________________________________________________________ 5. Why was her debut recording session delayed? _______________________________________
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The competition between major record conglomerates which combine to own about a 75% share of the music industry‚ is more or less evenly distributed between Sony Music Entertainment‚ Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group. They also own smaller labels and run them under their company‚ this is known as horizontal integration. Although‚ these smaller
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THE KEY ROLES OF A MUSIC PUBLISHER & THE IMPORTANT RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN MUSIC PUBLISHING. A brief introduction into the world of the music publisher will help the understanding of the benefits and pitfalls that occur with the ongoing decline in the record industry‚ and how music publishing utilizes the advantages it possesses to insulate itself against the changing marketplace due to it’s diverse streams of revenue. The role of the music publisher has evolved over the years‚ for many music
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reductions. However‚ the cash flow is damaging due to a delay of payment from retailers‚ and the margins on the products are much lower than the premium brand. Based on taking on private brands only‚ CMB’s financials would look as follows: Private Label Profit Income Statement Period ending December 31‚ 2001 Estimated 2001 2000 Revenues 52‚800‚000 56‚112‚408 Costs of goods sold 42‚918‚000 33‚233‚867 Gross margin 9‚882‚000 22‚878‚541
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Chapter 11: Independent (Indie) record labels are often able to take chances that major labels cannot. Why? Student response: Percent Value Student e Respons Answer Choices a. Low talent & recording costs for indie labels 0.0% b. Indie labels set up their distributio n carefully (identified their key demogra phic and distributio n areas and only sent material to those disc jockeys and radio stations) c. Major labels often paid huge amounts of money to
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advertise their artists. Today‚ the channel reaches over 70 million United States households. MTV was the first 24-hour‚ seven-day-a-week commercial channel‚ because the music videos were seen as advertisements that ranged from artists and record labels to clothing and attitudes. There are many reasons given for MTV’s success throughout its lifetime. What MTV aimed at was to capture the teen audience. They did this by means of eliminating adults from shows. MTV gives teens a feeling that they are
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