Music Copyright Law
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Recent papers in Music Copyright Law
History of copyright: a chronology in relation to music [1455-2001] (later updated to 2006, then to 2015), and as applicable in Britain, unless otherwise stated. First published in Music Business Journal (Ligo Publishing Ltd.) in 2001.... more
Theories about the music industry’s financial collapse abound. The digital download and the corresponding ease of piracy are common scapegoats. The ephemeral nature of music also enters into the discourse about an audience’s willingness... more
This study was commissioned by the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) to provide an evidence-based view on whether the criminal sanctions for copyright infringement available under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA... more
Paper on the Williams vs the Gaye Estate ruling and its effects on music industry structure. This paper was submitted as part of the Advanced Aspects of Cultural Economics Course held at Erasmus University in spring 2020 (teacher: Valeria... more
""Music is a social phenomenon allowing the possibility of indefinite recreations. Depending on the cultures, places, and times, musical exchanges have been locally managed in various ways. Today the rights to copy a particular music are... more
Se analizan las diferencias principales entre ambos sistemas de protección de los derechos sobre las creaciones, con especial incidencia en el sistema aplicable en USA, así como el funcionamiento de las entidades de gestión colectiva de... more
In my paper I shall examine the ramifications of Clause 19(1) of the British Copyright Act of 1911, which states that ‘Copyright shall subsist in records … in like manner as if such contrivances were musical works’. This clause led to... more
360 deals can give record companies access to revenue from movie contracts, merchandise sales, and other sources “all around” the artist. They reflect a transition from an industry model focused on delivery of goods (compact discs or even... more
Mashups are a specific type of sample-based music where ‘new’ songs are created entirely from ‘old’ recordings. They contain no ‘original’ material and are the most overt examples of intertextuality in popular music. Vocal and... more
The management and exploitation of copyrighted material in the form of musical works and sound recordings through the mechanism of collecting societies is a convenient structure that facilitates the utilisation of these works by potential... more
Much has been written on jazz, its explosive success at the beginning of its life journey, and its gradual gain of respectability as it aged – in exchange for a noticeable loss of popularity in the land of its birth. But very few... more
History of Publishing Contract explores and analyzes the history and the development of copyright law and publishing contracts through dozens of archival sources and the jurisprudence in Hungary. The book deals with the history of... more
This paper examinates the importance of role models for the musical development of female singers and songwriters and how these role models are choosen. The empirical study is based on interviews of three Swedish female... more
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Resumen. La grabación comercial es el documento sonoro propio del siglo XX y puede brindar información sobre el quehacer cultural de esa época. Por ello, es importante llamar la atención sobre los derechos de las grabaciones discográficas... more
Introduction Bolivia is one of the poorest and most socially unequal countries in South America, with a GDP (gross domestic product) per capita of US$4200—around one-eleventh that of the United States. 1 Proportionally, it has the largest... more
In the U.K the protections copyright offers are often granted to the first author of original creative works (such as music, literature, photographs, sound recordings) upon creation. Occasionally intellectual property protected by... more
This study was commissioned by the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) to provide an evidence-based view on whether the criminal sanctions for copyright infringement available under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA... more
Since its rise to prominence among hip hop producers thirty years ago, digital music sampling has become a popular method of music production for musicians across multiple genres. Yet case law, copyright laws, and standard music industry... more
In order to understand copyright law in East Africa, this chapter explores post-TRIPs reforms on musical property rights regimes in Tanzania and Kenya. We describe divergent trajectories of property rights that are animated by historical... more
Reprinted with permission from: Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Journal, Summer 2014, Vol. 25, No. 2, published by the New York State Bar Association, One Elk Street, Albany, NY 12207. In August of 2013, Pharrell Williams, Robin... more
This paper, based on a keynote talk at Columbia Law School, reviews the nature of collective management organizations (CMOs), their regulation, in particular the difference in the US regulatory regimes for performing rights organizations... more
Organised by Ananay Aguilar, Faculty of Music / Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, University of Cambridge, 9 December 2014
This article explores Stephen Foster’s understanding and use of copyright. It examines what his copyright strategy can reveal about his professionalism as a songwriter and about his worldview as an important influencer of early American... more