Once upon a time it was the consumer who was confused about what they owned. We all bought vinyl records because it meant we could hear the music we wanted to.

Once upon a time it was the consumer who was confused about what they owned. We all bought vinyl records because it meant we could hear the music we wanted to. We thought this meant we could do what we liked with the music and even though we couldn't the limitations of the technology meant the artist and record company profits never really suffered. One day digital music came along and suddenly our assumptions about what we could do with the music we owned became a serious problem for record company profits and the whole planet shook. Now we have all become artists; our words, our emails, our tweets and posts the new music. The Twitters and the Googles are the new record companies and once more the confusion between music and vinyl has arisen.