Georgetown Law
Technology Review

Technology has pervasively altered how people consume goods and services, creating niches for novel market actors. The entertainment and music industries have not been immune from these ongoing, dramatic changes.1Joel Waldfogel, How Digitization Has Created a Golden Age of Music, Movies, Books, and Television, 31 J. Econ. Perspectives 195, 195–96 (2017), [https://perma.cc/9UJP-U3ZS]. From the proliferation of electronic music genres like dubstep to the rapid growth of interactive virtual concerts during the COVID-19 pandemic, technology continues to rapidly transform the contours of––and practices within––the music industry.2See generally Jim Rogers, The Death and Life of the Music Industry in the Digital Age 1–9 (2013) (describing other ways in which technology continues to transform the music industry).

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