Music and Copyright

Main curriculum

Books: 

Frith, Simon and Lee Marshall (eds.) (2004): Music and Copyright. New York: Routledge. 

McLeod, Kembrew and Peter Dicola (2011): Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling. Durham and London: Duke University Press. (Available here)

 

Articles and chapters: 

Barlow, J.P. (1996): 'A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace’. Electronic Frontier Foundation. (Available here)

Demers, Joanna, 2006: Chapter 3 + 4 in Steal This Music: How Intellectual Property Law Affects Musical Creativity. Athens/London: University of Georgia Press. (Available here)

Foucault, Michel, 1984 [1969]. “What is an Author?” In Foucault Reader, ed. Paul Rainow, trans. Josué V. Harari, 101–120. New York: Pantheon Books. (Available here)

Google (2018): How Google Fights Piracy, pp.18-32. (Available here)

Kim, Jin (2012): The institutionalization of YouTube: From user-generated content to professionally generated content. Media, Culture, and Society, 34(1), pp.53-67. (Available here)

Klein, Bethany, Giles Moss and Lee Edwards (2015): Chapter 7 in Understanding Copyright: Intellectual Property in the Digital Age. Los Angeles: Sage, pp. 102-121. (Available here

Soha and McDowell (2016): Monetizing a meme: YouTube, content ID, and the Harlem Shake, Social Media + Society, January-March 2016, pp.1-12. (Available here

Wikstr?m, Patrik (2013): "A Copyright Industry", chapter 1 in The Music Industry: Music in the Cloud. Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 12-45. (Available in Canvas

John Street & Tom Phillips (2017): What Do Musicians Talk About When They Talk About Copyright?, Popular Music and Society, 40:4, 422-433. (Available here

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