Patrons, Curators, Inventors and Thieves

The Storytelling Contest of the Cultural Industries in the Digital Age
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-349-32077-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 265 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 351 g

Jonathan Wheeldon offers a rare and unusually reflective insider account of the transformational challenges of the music industry, and the cultural industries in general, over the past 15 years. He also makes a potentially valuable contribution to loosening the industrial-political deadlock in the debate over copyright reform.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wheeldon, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft: Theorie & Allgemeines
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction PART I: MY VERSION OF EVENTS 1. A Personal Perspective 2. Innovation or Bust – a Short History of Recorded Music PART II: STAKEHOLDER VOICES 3. Value Shift 4. Custodial Tensions 5. Hindsight PART III: A STORYTELLING CONTEST 6. The Analysis of Discourse 7. Strategy as Storytelling 8. Identification of Key Constructs 9. A Narrative World 10. The Inventor's Tale 11. Power and Ideology PART IV: THE PIRATE'S TALE: REFORM OF COPYRIGHT AND THE FUTURE 12. Pirates, Property and Privatization 13. Enclosing the Commons of the Mind 14. The 300 Year War of Copyright 15. My Version of Events: the Future Bibliography Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan Wheeldon is a Chartered Accountant and Visiting Fellow at Henley Business School. He spent ten years at Universal Music in senior positions in New York, Madrid, Los Angeles and London. He has served as Group Finance Director of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group where he financed the $70 million Oscar-nominated movie . He was Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at EMI Group leading up to its sale to private equity in 2007, and most recently he has served as Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer of Macmillan Publishers.