Analyzing Norway’s experience from adopting on-demand streaming: Exceptions or rules to a future economy?
While the music industry, artists and fans are discussing the streaming’s ability to advance music’s digitalization-process into more sustainable models, Norway has indeed adopted subscription based, on-demand streaming and hence, may work as case to better understand the impacts of such an adoption. This paper builds on the findings in two separate but related committees, each resulting in a Norwegian report: The report from the Government initiated Nordgård-committee from 2013 (the committee on Challenges concerning the digitalization of the music industry1) and the report from the Norwegian Musicians Union (Musikernes fellesorganisasjon), the MFO committee2 from September 2014.