An Economic Approach To The Plagiarism Of Music

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This book is an economic analysis of plagiarism in music, focusing on social efficiency and questions of inequity in the revenue of authors/artists. The organisation into central chapters on the traditional literary aspect of composition and the technocratic problem of ‘sampling’ will help clarify disputes about social efficiency and equity. It will also be extremely helpful as an expository method where the text is used in courses on the music business. These issues have been explored to a great extent in other areas of musical content—notably piracy, copying and streaming. Therefore it is extremely helpful to exclude consumer use of musical content from the discussion to focus solely on the production side. This book also looks at the policy options in terms of the welfare economics of policy analysis. Contents......Page 6 List of Figures......Page 7 List of Tables......Page 8 Chapter 1: What Is Plagiarism and What Is Musical Plagiarism?......Page 9 1.1 What Is Music and What Is Plagiarism?......Page 11 1.2 Why Is Music Plagiarism a Problem?......Page 18 1.3.1 The ‘Criminal Economy’ View......Page 19 1.4 Deciding on Plagiarism in General?......Page 22 1.4.1 The Problem of Cognitive Bias in Deciding Plagiarism......Page 25 1.5 Borrowing from Other Creative Outlets......Page 30 1.6 Unconscious Plagiarism Considered......Page 32 1.7.1 What Kind of Data Can We Get?......Page 34 References......Page 41 Chapter 2: Plagiarism the Old Fashioned Way: Steal from a Composition......Page 45 2.1 Self-Plagiarism in Music?......Page 46 2.2 Unconscious Plagiarism: Music Specific......Page 48 2.3 Is Parody a Valid Defence?......Page 50 2.4 Composition and Plagiarism’s Role in It......Page 53 2.5 Creativity......Page 56 2.6 Arnstein and Beyond......Page 61 2.7 The Issue of Delay in Bringing Composition Cases......Page 65 References......Page 67 Chapter 3: Sampling, Samples and Library Music......Page 69 3.1 What Is Sampling?......Page 71 3.2 Why Sample at All? Plunderphonics, Sound Collage and Bricolage......Page 82 3.2.1 Plunderphonics......Page 84 3.2.2 Vaporwave......Page 86 3.3 Sampling from an Economic Point of View......Page 90 3.4 The Sample Clearance Problem......Page 91 3.5 Conclusion......Page 93 References......Page 94 Chapter 4: Policy Issues......Page 97 4.1 Recap and Agenda......Page 98 4.2 The Thin Empirical Evidence......Page 101 4.3 Standard Welfare Economics......Page 106 4.4 The Digital Libertarians: Boldrin and Levine......Page 110 4.5 Voluntary Settlement......Page 115 4.6 The International Dimension and the Berne Convention......Page 117 4.7 The Bitter Sweet Symphony Case......Page 120 4.8 Finale. Eleven Final Questions and How to Use the Appendix......Page 125 References......Page 127 Electronic Freedom Foundation. Documents with No Date as Follows:......Page 128 List of Those Accused......Page 131 Details......Page 132 Reference......Page 146 Index......Page 147