Napster, Spotify and the Fall of the 'Middle-Class Musician'

Jonathan Taplin comes at Internet power players like Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel and Mark Zuzkerberg and the influence they yield from an unlikely angle in Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy. Sure, he's the director emeritus of the Annenberg Innovations Lab at the University of Southern California, but that's not where

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