Columbia Law School Scholarship Archive Faculty Scholarship Faculty Publications 2015 Is Music the Next eBooks? An Antitrust Analysis of Apple's Conduct in the Music Industry Alexa Klebanow
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[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship Part of the Antitrust and Trade Regulation Commons, and the Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law Commons Recommended Citation Alexa Klebanow & Tim Wu, Is Music the Next eBooks? An Antitrust Analysis of Apple's Conduct in the Music Industry, COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF LAW & THE ARTS, VOL. 39, P. 119, 2015 (2015). Available at: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/1919 This Working Paper is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Publications at Scholarship Archive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Scholarship by an authorized administrator of Scholarship Archive. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Is Music the Next eBooks? An Antitrust Analysis of Apple’s Conduct in the Music Industry Alexa Klebanow as advised and edited by Tim Wu† Over the last twenty years, two waves of technological change have transformed the way people purchase and listen to music. First, digital downloads displaced physical sales of albums. More recently, digital downloads, once the primary way to gain access to digital music, have come to be challenged by streaming services. Apple, a leader in the digital download market with iTunes, has engaged in various strategies to meet the challenge. This paper specifically focuses on two types of conduct – Apple’s pressure on labels to enter into exclusive license agreements, also known as windowing, and Apple’s pressure on the market to abandon streaming options like Spotify’s “freemium” service.