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Owning the masters: a history of sound recording copyright / Richard Osborne.

By: Osborne, Richard, 1967- [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Bloomsbury Academic. 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: 256 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781501345906 (paperback).Subject(s): Sound recording industry -- History | Copyright -- Sound recordings | Copyright -- MusicDDC classification: 346.0482
Contents:
Mechanizing -- Performing -- Producing -- Expanding -- Justifying -- Networking -- Owning.
Summary: "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."-- Provided by publisher.
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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.

Bibliography: (pages 224-246) and index.

Mechanizing -- Performing -- Producing -- Expanding -- Justifying -- Networking -- Owning.

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Acknowledgements (viii)
  • Introduction (1)
  • 1 Mechanizing (17)
  • 2 Performing (49)
  • 3 Producing (79)
  • 4 Expanding (107)
  • 5 Justifying (127)
  • 6 Networking (153)
  • 7 Owning (177)
  • Glossary (204)
  • Timeline (215)
  • Bibliography (224)
  • Index (247)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

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 (Bloomsbury, 2019) and Music by Numbers (2021).