Senior Project Online Source 4

“Specific Page Title or Article Title”	"Music Piracy Costs U.S. Economy $12.5 Billion, Report Reveals"
Primary Contributor to the Website (if given) (author, editor, producer, etc)	K.C. Jones
Title of the Entire Website (not www. )	InformationWeek
Publisher or Sponsoring Organization of the website (if given)	N/A
Date Page was Last Revised	22 August 2007
Date You Read It	14 February 2012
<URL address> (ALL of it)	http://www.informationweek.com/news/201801704

FIVE FACTS FROM THE SOURCE (Embedded):

The article cites The Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) as releasing a report explaining that "U.S. workers lose $2.7 billion in earnings to music piracy" (Jones).

Jones starts of the article stating that because of global music piracy the United States is robbed "of $12.5 billion in economic output and more than 71,000 jobs annually" (Jones).

According to IPI, it is believed that sound recordings and other creative property "are the most important growth drivers in the U.S. economy" (Jones).

The article cites Stephen E. Siwek, author and principal with Economists Inc., as saying "Piracy harms not only the owners of intellectual property but also U.S. consumers and taxpayers"(Jones).

Jones explains that "the United States loses more than 46,000 production-level jobs and nearly 25,000 retail jobs due to music piracy" and if something isn't done soon, things could get worse (Jones).

Summary of Source (Three-Four Sentences of the Who, What, Where, Why, and How in your own words. NO OPINION):
K.C. Jones pulls together information from The Institute for Policy Innovation's most recent report to show some statistics on how music piracy has affected the U.S. economy. The two sources that she cites add a negative connotation to music piracy.  Jones also quotes author, Stephen E. Siwek, who validified IPI's information regarding the effects on the economy.

Credibility of Source:
Author or Site: Who is the author? What training have they had? If there is no author, examine the site. What is the purpose of the site? Who funds the site?
K.C. Jones is a writer for a website called InformationWeek and covers internet policy, web portals, and e-commerce.  She has been a writer for the greater part of her life and worked for InformationWeek for over three years.

Attachment: Does the author or site have anything to gain from writing this, or is it simply informative? For example, is it a cigarette business posting an article about the benefit of cigarettes, or is it a scientific community unaffiliated with the cigarette business?
Being as Jones writes a number of articles related to science and technology, one can assume she is fascinated with the subject.  She is lucky enough to have a job with InformationWeek that allows her to write about a topic that she is interested in.

Bias: Do you detect a bias (a favoring of either side) in the author's writing?
I detect a large bias in that she only cites sources that bring upon the negative effects of music piracy, not the positive.

References: Does the author cite references in the writing? If so, do these add or take away from the credibility?
The author cites author and principal with Economics Inc., Stephen E. Siwek.  She also adds The Institute for Policy Innovation to her bibliography adding even more validity to her opinions.

Use of Source: How will you use this source in your project? 
I plan to use this source to provide detailed statistics portraying the negative effects of music piracy on the U.S. economy.