Der Rechtsstreit um die ehemalige Gratis-Musiktauschbörse hat Bertelsmann bisher fast 400 Millionen Euro gekostet und damit die Bilanz verhagelt. Der Goldesel des Medienriesen ist nach wie vor die Fernsehtochter RTL. Sorgenkind bleibt dagegen die Musiktochter BMG.
Obwohl die Musiktauschbörse bereits verkauft wurde, hängt sie Bertelsmann immer noch nach: Der britische Musikriese EMI schließt sich einer Sammelklage in den USA gegen den deutschen Medienkonzern an. 17 Milliarden Dollar Streitwert stehen bislang im Raum.
Der Medienkonzern Bertelsmann hat die Abweisung von drei Schadenersatzklagen in Milliardenhöhe beim New Yorker Bundesgericht beantragt. Dies teilte der Medienkonzern am Donnerstagabend in Gütersloh mit. Kläger wie die Musikkonzerne EMI und Universal werfen Bertelsmann vor, mit dem Engagement bei der Musiktauschbörse Napster Urheberrechtsverletzungen gefördert zu haben.
Der Rechtsstreit um die ehemalige Gratis-Musiktauschbörse hat Bertelsmann bisher fast 400 Millionen Euro gekostet und damit die Bilanz verhagelt. Der Goldesel des Medienriesen ist nach wie vor die Fernsehtochter RTL. Sorgenkind bleibt dagegen die Musiktochter BMG.
Faced with increasing real-time dislocation of institutionalized practices in empirical studies, it has become clear that neo-institutional theory is still ill-equipped to elucidate strategies of change in institutional fields. In this article, I endorse the claim that neo-institutional theory can both become more strategic and give a richer meaning to the strategy-formation process by integrating issues of ideology, power and agency in a political-cultural rhetoric of legitimation. Using the social movement metaphor to describe institutional change, I study incumbents and challengers as potentially antagonistic social movement organizations (SMOs) that strive to hegemonize entrepreneurship in fields. After having outlined a model linking institutional change to the strategy-formation process, I identify four archetypes of SMOs and strategic propensities, and illustrate the presented propositions about the incumbent SMO-challenger SMO dynamic using the case of emerging Internet challengers in the music industry.
The Internet is often depicted as the ultimate arena for unfettered capitalism, erasing geographic boundaries and barriers to entry while providing a plethora of goods and services to consumers. This article traces how public and private reactions by the five major record companies to new Internet distribution technologies have undermined this popular myth. We use a political economic approach to examine the case of A&M Records et al. v. Napster, and discuss how this case underscores the importance of controlling the Internet as an entertainment distribution pipeline. Expressed concerns about piracy mask the actual intentions of the `Big Five' - control of all modes of distribution. The strength of the Big Five's cartel has a momentum of its own based in its market oligopoly, which has been secured through its ownership and management of intellectual property; through format changes and setting standards for other technologies; and through lobbying and legal activities.