Controversy Pertaining to Napster and Internet Music Files.
This paper discusses the affect that globalization and the Internet has had on music copyright. The current day of Globalization and advanced cyber-technology has tended to weaken all matters of patents, ownership and copyright. (Fitzgerald:2001) This is exemplified in different ways by the threat that Napster and shared internet music files represent to artists and to the music recording industry, at large. In this paper, the controversy created by the advent of Napster is explained in addition to possible prognoses for the future.
