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iTake-Over - The Recording Industry in the Digital Era (Hardcover)
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iTake-Over - The Recording Industry in the Digital Era (Hardcover)
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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.
iTake-Over more specifically surveys the actual material effects
that digital distribution has had on the industry. Most notable
among these is how major record labels find themselves in a
stronger financial position today in the music industry than they
were before the launch of Napster. Arditi contends that this is
largely because of reduced production and distribution costs and
the steady gain in digital music sales. Moreover, instead of merely
trying to counteract the phenomenon of digital distribution, the
RIAA and the major record labels embraced, and then altered, the
distribution system. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, the RIAA
lobbied for legislation, built technologies, and waged war in the
courts in order to shape the digital environment for music
distribution. From mp3s to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
(DMCA), from the Audio Home Recording Act (AHRA) to iTunes, the
major record labels and the RIAA, instead of trying to torpedo the
switch to digital distribution, engineered it to their
benefit-often at the expense of the public interest. Throughout,
Arditi boldly asserts that the sea change to digital music did not
destroy the recording industry. Rather, it stands as a testament to
the recording industry's successful management of this migration to
digital production and distribution. As such, this work should
appeal to musicians and music scholars, political scientists and
sociologists, technologists and audio professionals seeking to
grasp this remarkable change in music production and consumption.
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