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Russell Rains, Director of the MBA Program in Digital Media Management Program at St. Edwards College in Austin TX, discusses various possible futures for copyright in the USA, from abolishing it outright to modifying the law to better account for digital distribution and duplication.

Russell Rains, Director of the MBA Program in Digital Media Management Program at St. Edwards College in Austin TX, defines the parameters of copyright law as it applies to sound recordings in the USA, and identifies many areas in which the law is vague or incomplete. He also discusses how the Copyright Act of 1976 changed copyright law, and addresses the role of the federal government and private bodies in enforcing copyright law.

Russell Rains, Director of the MBA Program in Digital Media Management Program at St. Edwards College in Austin TX, discusses what the current state of the record business implies for the future. He addresses the problem of pricing how much is too little? how much is too expensive? and the ways in which digital music is much more difficult for companies to capture, control and monetize than traditional physical media.

Russell Rains, Director of the MBA Program in Digital Media Management Program at St. Edwards College in Austin TX, discusses the current state of copyright law as regards sampling of existing works. Beginning with the 1991 court case Grand Upright Music, Ltd v. Warner Bros. Records, Inc. which for more than a decade seemed to have settled the question of samplings illegality, Rains discusses new court decisions and legal developments which in the very near future may transform how sampling relates to copyright law in the United States.

Russell Rains, Director of the MBA Program in Digital Media Management at St. Edwards College in Austin TX, leads a discussion at Loyola University, New Orleans about how copyright law applies to sound recordings in the USA, how digital media and digital rights management relate to copyright, and what the future may hold. He explains what rights the purchaser of a sound recording has, why record companies love digital rights management, how Creative Commons may transform copyright law, how new technology and distribution methods are making current law obsolete, and how current events are shaping the future of copyright law.

Russell Rains, Director of the MBA Program in Digital Media Management at St. Edward's University in Austin TX, discusses the program and what it offers to students over and above the standard fare of business degrees (such as finance, accounting and marketing). Rains also defines exactly what Digital Media Management is, what it means, and why Austin is going to be an important location for digital media production in the years to come.

Russell Rains, Director of the MBA Program in Digital Media Management Program at St. Edwards College in Austin TX, gives his opinions on various forces shaping the future of the entertainment industry and how people find and consume music and other media. He discusses the notion of convergence in both a technological and business sense, and assesses the impact of the phenomenon on consumers, retailers, and the future of copyright and digital rights management. He also makes an attempt at isolating what forces are really at the root of current controversies over digital rights, pricing, and distribution methods.

Russell Rains, Director of the MBA Program in Digital Media Management Program at St. Edwards College in Austin TX, discusses digital rights management, why record companies are so in favor of it, and why these companies never manage to successfully predict what the next big threat to their perceived rights is going to be.

Russell Rains, Director of the MBA Program in Digital Media Management Program at St. Edwards College in Austin TX, answers the question, If music is property, why dont many people consider downloading music without paying to be stealing? He discusses the ethical, legal, and common-sense issues at play when discussing the culture of music downloading, and then looks at various sides of a related question: If the music is available for free, then why pay?