Music Borrowing and Copyright Law: A Genre-by-Genre Analysis

The book explores the complex relationship between copyright law and music borrowing across various genres, examining how generic conventions influence and are influenced by creative borrowing practices. It features contributions from leading experts and offers insights into music genre categorisation, borrowing typology, and the ontological struggle with musical borrowing. The chapters are unified by the theme of collective bargaining among musicking parties, resulting in the cumulative nature of music creativity.

Format: Hardback
Length: 488 pages
Publication date: 19 October 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

This ground-breaking book delves into the intricate interplay between copyright law and music borrowing across a diverse range of musical genres from around the world. It examines how copyright laws under different generic conventions may influence or be influenced by time-honoured creative borrowing practices. Leading experts from various parts of the world explore a carefully selected range of musical genres, including pop, hip-hop, jazz, blues, electronic and dance music, as well as region-specific genres such as Jamaican music, River Plate Tango, Irish folk music, Hungarian folk music, Flamenco, Indian traditional music, Australian indigenous music, Maori music, and many more. This genre-conscious analysis builds on a theoretical section that includes insights from musicologists and lawyers on fundamental issues related to music genre categorisation, the typology of music borrowing, and the ontological struggle with musical borrowing in theory and practice. The chapters are interconnected by a central theme, which posits that the cumulative nature of music creativity is the result of collective bargaining processes among numerous 'musicking parties' that have socially constructed creative music authorship under a rich mix of generic conventions.

Weight: 1188g
Dimension: 244 x 169 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781509949380