Use a selection of futures strategies to determine how a record company should distribute music content. Consider issues such as illegal file sharing, file encryption, hacking and copyright. This learning object is the last in a series of two learning objects that progressively increase in difficulty.
Keywords
Digital rights; Downloading; Encryption; Futurism; Music distribution; Piracy
Topics
Business forecasting; Copyright; Critical thinking; Decision making; Distribution; Electronic publishing; Enterprises (Business); Evaluation; Internet; Music industry; Sound recordings
Key learning objectives
Students identify trends and challenges in the online distribution of music.
Students use futures strategies to determine how to achieve a preferred future for an online distribution music company.
Educational value
Students compare and evaluate a range of future scenarios.
Students collect, interpret and analyse data about trends in digital music distribution.
Students recommend a strategy and complete a report summarising reasons for their decision.
The evidence provided allows enough scope for a range of alternative opinions and solutions to be justified.