some homework and a few facts about Gangnam style

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Find out about how songs earn money, especially about sync rights, redevelopment by other artists, and parody as defined by the American legal system.

The song is the copyright.

Is it all about the money?

Ben E King thinks it is not.

In the 21^st century it is about the multiplicity of music delivery, it has been estimated that there are 165,000 music capable devices produce every hour.

Gangnan style

YouTube search generates 391,000 results

Google search generates 520,000,000 results

From Psy’s YouTube page the ten featured iterations of this track have generated 1,290,347,829 views in five months. That’s 8,484,479 views per day, which is more than the population of Bangalore, India, the 18^th most populated city on the planet; or 98.2 views per minute.

61.6% of viewers were male, and those aged between 13 and 17 represented the biggest group.

Twitter and celebrity endorsement via twitter have significantly contributed to the viral spread. The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has even joined in the phenomena.

Apparently it’s a first amendment right to poke fun and everyone wants in on the act, a SpongeBob square pants version has generated 2,682,114 views and people seem to love chipmunks: three renditions alone have generated: 13,369,621 views.

Currently 18.31% of the world’s population have watch or listened it once. That is 227,216,459 hours of listening time or 25,938 years. "Gangnam Style" dancing will burn 150–200 calories per half-hour, which means if we did the dance we would have consumed 79,525,760,596 calories, which is enough to feed more than 53 million people for a day; or the equivalent of the total energy released in the nuclear fission of 3.78 grams of uranium-235; which is about the same as about 792 tonnes of TNT, or 333 lightening bolts.

In the days of the CD it would represent a stack 1,552 Km high, that is more than 175 times the height of Mount Everest.

In data terms it represents 3.10 x 10¹⁹ bits, or 3.88 x 10³ petabytes. The world has generated in the region 2.7 x 10²¹ bytes in 2012, so this one song alone has contributed just 0.14% to the worlds consumption.