Copyright lies at the very heart of the music business. It determines how music is marketed, artists are rewarded, and all the uses to which their work is put. And copyright claims and counter-claims are the source of recurring conflict: Who wrote what and when? Who owns these sounds? What are you allowed to do with them? Disputes about copying and theft are becoming ever noisier with digital technology and the new possibilities of sampling and downloading and large-scale piracy. This book has been written to explain the copyright system to non-legal specialists and to show why copyright...
Copyright lies at the very heart of the music business. It determines how music is marketed, artists are rewarded, and all the uses to which their wor...
Bob Dylan's contribution to popular music is immeasurable. Venerated as rock's one true genius, Dylan is considered responsible for introducing a new range of topics and new lyrical complexity into popular music. Without Bob Dylan, rock critic Dave Marsh once claimed, there would be no popular music as we understand it today.
As such an exalted figure, Dylan has been the subject of countless books and intricate scholarship considering various dimensions of both the man and his music. This book places new emphasis on Dylan as a rock star. Whatever else Dylan is, he is a star -...
Bob Dylan's contribution to popular music is immeasurable. Venerated as rock's one true genius, Dylan is considered responsible for introducing a new ...
By examining the centrality of Romantic authorship to both copyright and the music industry, the author highlights the mutual dependence of capitalism and Romanticism, which situates the individual as the key creative force while challenging the commodification of art and self. Marshall reveals how the desire for bootlegs is driven by the same ideals of authenticity employed by the legitimate industry in its copyright rhetoric and practice and demonstrates how bootlegs exist as an antagonistic but necessary component of an industry that does much to prevent them. This book will be of great...
By examining the centrality of Romantic authorship to both copyright and the music industry, the author highlights the mutual dependence of capitalism...
'Music and Copyright' is intended to explain the copyright system to non-legal specialists. The subject is approached from the perspectives of composers, performers, producers and infringers.
'Music and Copyright' is intended to explain the copyright system to non-legal specialists. The subject is approached from the perspectives of compose...
This text offers a less Anglocentric and dynamic understanding of the recording industry. Its starting premise is the idea that the recording industry is not one thing but is, rather, a series of recording industries, locally organized and locally focused, both structured by and structuring the international industry.
This text offers a less Anglocentric and dynamic understanding of the recording industry. Its starting premise is the idea that the recording industry...
The recording industry has been a major focus of interest for cultural commentators throughout the twenty-first century. As the first major content industry to have its production and distribution patterns radically disturbed by the internet, the recording industry s content, attitudes and practices have regularly been under the microscope. Much of this discussion, however, is dominated by US and UK perspectives and assumes the the recording industry to be a relatively static, homogeneous, entity.
This book attempts to offer a broader, less Anglocentric and more dynamic...
The recording industry has been a major focus of interest for cultural commentators throughout the twenty-first century. As the first major content...
