Piracy and the Rise of New Media

This chapter focuses on the rise of magnetic recording as a new medium for sound, from its humble origins on wire in the 1880s to the eventual success of the high-fidelity market after World War II, and how it paved the way for piracy. It considers how the magnetic tape recorder enabled copying and...

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Published inDemocracy of Sound
Main Author Cummings, Alex Sayf
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Oxford University Press 25.04.2013
Subjects
copyright
magnetic recording
property rights
piracy
jazz
magnetic tape recorder
classical music
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Summary:This chapter focuses on the rise of magnetic recording as a new medium for sound, from its humble origins on wire in the 1880s to the eventual success of the high-fidelity market after World War II, and how it paved the way for piracy. It considers how the magnetic tape recorder enabled copying and exchange of classical music, along with its implications for copyright. It also examines how the transformation of magnetic recording into a medium that could be accessed by large numbers of people challenged property rights by enabling new ways of using sound that had not been known to the jazz copiers of the 1930s and 1940s.
ISBN:0199858225
9780199858224
DOI:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199858224.003.0004