Democracy of Sound - Alex Sayf Cummings

Written by Alex Sayf Cummings
Read by Aaron Abano
Format: MP3

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

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 property as 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 in circulation, preserve out-of-print recordings from extinction, or simply make records more freely and cheaply available. Genteel jazz collectors swapped and copied rare records in the 1930s; radicals pitched piracy as a mortal threat to capitalism in the 1960s, while hip-hop DJs from the 1970s onwards reused and transformed sounds to create a freer and less regulated market for mixtapes. Each challenged the idea that sound could be owned by anyone.The conflict led to the contemporary stalemate between those who believe that information wants to be free and those who insist that economic prosperity depends on protecting intellectual property. The saga of piracy also shows how the dubbers, bootleggers, and tape traders forged new social networks that ultimately gave rise to the social media of the twenty first century. Democracy of Sound is a colorful story of people making law, resisting law, and imagining how law might shape the future of music, from the Victrola and pianola to iTunes and BitTorrent.

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Creation Date:	Sun, 03 Aug 2014 01:58:06 -0400
This is a Multifile Torrent
07 - Chapter 6- Deadheads, Hip Hop, and the Possibility of Compromise.mp3 38.92 MBs
08 - Chapter 7- The Global War on Piracy.mp3 36.97 MBs
09 - Conclusion- Piracy as Social Media.mp3 30.35 MBs
cover.jpg 287.27 KBs
06 - Chapter 5- The Criminalization of Piracy.mp3 50.66 MBs
05 - Chapter 4- Counterculture, Popular Music, and the Bootleg Boom.mp3 35.54 MBs
02 - Chapter 1- Music, Machines, and Monopoly.mp3 34.77 MBs
03 - Chapter 2- Collectors, Con Men, and the Struggle for Property Rights.mp3 39.42 MBs
04 - Chapter 3- Piracy and the Rise of New Media.mp3 40.06 MBs
01 - Introduction.mp3 12.54 MBs
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