Democracy of Sound Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright in the Twentieth Century

Name: Democracy of Sound Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright in the Twentieth Century
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ISBN: 9780199858224

ISBN-10: 0199858225

ISBN-13: 9780199858224

Edition: 2013

Authors: Alex Sayf Cummings

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Democracy of Sound is the first book to examine music piracy in the United States from the dawn of sound recording to the rise of Napster and online file-sharing. It asks why Americans stopped thinking of copyright as a monopoly - a kind of necessary evil-and came to see intellectual propertyas sacrosanct and necessary for the prosperity of an "information economy." Recordings only became eligible for federal copyright in 1972, following years of struggle between pirates, musicians, songwriters, broadcasters, and record companies over the right to own sound. Beginning in the 1890s, the book follows the competing visions of Americans who proposed ways to keep obscure and noncommercial music…

Book details

List price: $43.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 3/6/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.33" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Birth and Growth of Piracy, 1877-1955



Music, Machines, and Monopoly



Collectors, Con Men, and the Struggle for Property Rights



Piracy and the Rise of New Media



The Legal Backlash, 1945-1998



Counterculture, Popular Music, and the Bootleg Boom



The Criminalization of Piracy



Deadheads, Hip-Hop, and the Possibility of Compromise



The Global War on Piracy


Conclusion: Piracy as Social Media


Notes


Index