People can listen to music on many devices, including tablets（平板电脑） and mobile phones. As music becomes digital, billions of people around the world can listen to many different kinds of songs no matter where they live— the variety and quantity of music is greater than ever before, and available to more people.
These changes are both good news and bad news for the music industry. They help spread music around the world. But digitizing music can create problems for songwriters, musicians and singers.
Recently, the music industry observed World Intellectual Property Day. Intellectual property includes books, songs, art, business methods and other works that humans have created from their intellect.
Jimmie Moore is a singer, songwriter and poet from Houston, Texas. He calls himself "JMetro." He says intellectual property laws protect his music. Jmetro says he likes the opportunities new technologies give him and other artists. But he says those technologies can also hurt artists.
Michelle Woods directs the copyright division of the World Intellectual Property Organization. She says international copyright law agreements have been changed to deal with the digitization of music. She says singers and musicians should be able to earn money when their digitized songs and music are played.
Even though many songs can be downloaded without payment, the number of digitized songs that are being paid for is increasing. The music industry says sales overall grew almost 7 percent to $6.85 billion last year. About half of those sales came from digitized songs, and the other half from music sold in stores.
Experts believe musical creativity will increase because of the Internet, but only if the artists are paid for their work. They say if musicians are not rewarded for their work, everyone will suffer.
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