Music-4you.com - digital music e-commerce case study

Abstract

During the past couple of years a new business has arise on the Internet – digital music e-commerce. Web-sites such as Apple iTunes, Real Rhapsody and most recently the renewed version of Napster with Microsoft support have attracted a lot of attention to this new business. This paper introduces and describes an example of a digital music e-commerce web-site – Music-4You.com – developed in the framework of a European project called MOSES. However, Music-4you isn’t just another digital music e-commerce site. It introduces some new concepts in the electronic trading of digital music, such as the negotiation of rights licensing conditions, the usage of new media formats and the possibility of music providers add their own music to the web-site and to define their own business models and rights management.