Title: iTake-over : the recording industry in the digital era /
Authors: Arditi, David, 1982-
Year: 2015
Subjects: Sound recording industry; Music and the Internet Economic aspects.; Musikwirtschaft.; Tonträgerindustrie.; Neue Medien; Musik
Abstract: ITake-Over: The Recording Industry in the Digital Era sheds light on the way large corporations appropriate new technologies related to recording and distribution of audio material to maintain their market dominance in a capitalist system. All too commonly, scholars have asserted too confidently, how the rise and reign of digital music has diminished the power of major record labels. In iTake-Over, music scholar David Arditi argues otherwise, adopting a broader perspective by examining how the recording industry has strengthened copyright laws for their corporate ends at the expense of the broader public good, which has traditionally depended on the safe harbor of fair use. Arditi also challenges the dominant discourse over digital music distribution, which has largely adopted the position that the recording industry has a legitimate claim to profitability at the detriment of a shared culture.^
Contents: Introduction -- Transformations in the recording industry. Recording industry in transition ; The expansion of consumption in the recording industry -- The state in music. Copyright : a critical exploration ; Critical junctures -- The recording industry and labor. Musician labor ; Victims, musicians and Metallica -- Digital distribution and surveillance. Distribution then and now ; Watching music consumption.