Owning the Masters

A History of Sound Recording Copyright

Dr Richard Osborne (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-5013-4590-6 (ISBN)

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Owning the Masters provides the first in-depth history of sound recording copyright. It is this form of intellectual property that underpins the workings of the recording industry. Rather than being focused on the manufacture of goods, this industry is centred on the creation, exploitation and protection of rights. The development and control of these rights has not been straightforward. This book explores the lobbying activities of record companies: the principal creators, owners and defenders of sound recording copyright. It addresses the counter-activity of recording artists, in particular those who have fought against the legislative and contractual practices of record companies to claim these master rights for themselves. In addition, this book looks at the activities of the listening public, large numbers of whom have been labelled ‘pirates’ for trespassing on these rights. The public has played its own part in shaping copyright legislation. This is an essential subject for an understanding of the economic, artistic and political value of recorded sound.

Richard Osborne is Associate Professor in Music and Creative Industries at Middlesex University, UK. Prior to working in academia he was employed in music retail, held various posts at collecting societies and co-managed a pub. He is the author of Vinyl: A History of the Analogue Record (2012), and co-editor of Mute Records (2019) and Music by Numbers (2021).

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Mechanizing
2. Performing
3. Producing
4. Expanding
5. Justifying
6. Networking
7. Owning
Glossary
Timeline
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.01.2023
Reihe/Serie	Alternate Takes: Critical Responses to Popular Music
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 226 mm
Gewicht	400 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Urheberrecht
ISBN-10	1-5013-4590-7 / 1501345907
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-4590-6 / 9781501345906
Zustand	Neuware