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Background of Media
What is Recording Industry
• Known as Music Industry

• People in the industry involved- Artists, songwriters, composers and many more.

• An industry that uses songs to earn money

• Commercialized the arts.

Recording Industry
• There are more than 200 recording company in Malaysia.

• Sony BMG
• Rock Record
• EMI (Malaysia)
• Halo Music
• Warner Music
Recording Industry Association Malaysia(RIM)
• RIM is a national trade association

• RIM also is also protecting the local and international sound, music video, karaoke recordings.

Ethical issues in the recording industries
Principles of Media Ethics
How does RIM help the local recording company
RIM wants another file sharing site blocked

The Recording Industry Association of Malaysia (RIM) has called on the Government to ban another file-sharing site - jiwang.org.

It claimed that the site specialises in providing pirated Malaysian music recordings for illegal downloads.

Norms of Recording Industry
• Bring positive message to the people. -Mass Communication should motivate and bring positive information to the mass society.

• Copyright protection -Audio watermarking “Downloading music illegally is like stealing someone’s intellectual property and taking it without an agreement in exchange of rights for money” Micheal Mathew 2006 “Availability of digital media for music recordings and the possibility to transfer it fast and degradation-free would not only offer many benefits in terms of market expansion, but also expose their business to a great danger which is the piracy of intellectual property rights.” T.Dutoit, F. Marques, Applied Signal Processing

Expectation to Recording Industry
• Entertainment
-leisure time
-kill time

• Express the inner feeling through music
“Human are subconsciously moved by the emotion of music” Dave Allen
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