• Don Cusic - James Weldon Johnson: Early African American Songwriter
• Serona Elton - Comparative Analysis of Mechanical Licensing Processes around the World

The headlines regularly tell us that overall revenue from record sales is continuing to decline.  This decline is having a huge impact on the bottom line at most record companies, and is being felt by all music industry entities receiving a revenue stream related to record sales.  Mechanical licensing and mechanical royalties, the flow of permission and money between record companies and music publishers, is more important than ever before as these parties fight over the size of their slice of a shrinking recorded music pie.  While much discussion in this area of the music industry focuses on what the mechanical royalty rate should be, there is little discussion of the mechanical licensing process, and its related administrative cost to all of the parties participating in it.    This paper takes a close look at the mechanical licensing process in a number of countries around the world, highlighting the relative simplicity or complexity of the process steps and the level of resources needed to perform them.  As pressure to reduce administrative costs within the recorded music industry continues to grow, the willingness to consider new and more efficient ways of doing business should also grow.  Identifying the least administratively burdensome approaches to mechanical licensing in use around the world today will help inform the future decisions of both business executives and governmental bodies with respect to this area of the music industry. (view session)

• Stuart J.Fowler  and Jennifer J. Wilgus - A Quantitative Analysis of Entertainment Consumption: 1984-2009
• Storm Gloor - Artists’ Windows of Opportunity: When and For How Long Have They Been Open, Before the “Long Tail” and After?
• Keith Hatschek - Results and Preliminary Analysis of a Survey of Course Distribution Data in Music Industry Studies
• Tad Lathrop - Promoting Music Through Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC)
• C. Scott LeGere  - Using Mobile Based Social Media Platforms to Enhance Academic Rigor and Student Connectedness In Off-Campus Studies Programs
• Guillermo Mager - Legal and Ethical Issues Regarding Unpaid Internships
• David Schreiber - The Recorded Music Industry: A Systematic Review of the Academic Literature
• Cheryl L. Slay - Teaching Copyright law in the Undergraduate Entertainment Business Curriculum: Challenges, Benefits, and Methodologies
• Richard Strasser - Department of Education and Higher Education: New Rulings and Federal Funding
• Ray Sylvester - Understanding the history and evolution of promotional strategies adopted within the music industry from the 20th to the 21st century
• Terry Tompkins - MAD Dragon Records: Integrating Real World Entities into an Academic Curriculum