Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1: Lessons from History; 2: Copyright and the Romantic Author; 3: Romanticism and Popular Music; 4: Romanticism, Copyright and Piracy; 5: Problems and Alternatives; 6: Introduction to Bootlegging; 7: An overview of Bootlegging; 8: The Impact of Bootlegging on the Record Industry and the Industry's Response; 9: The Dialectic of Romanticism and the Symbolic Significance of Bootlegging; Bibliography; Index
Summary
A valuable and distinctive contribution to the penumbra debate, refreshingly shedding light on some of the clichés of copyright, and alerting readers to the extra-legal factors that cannot be ignored in any socially-embedded study of copyright' - Stuart Hannabuss, Aberdeen Business School. 'Bootlegging is a smart, provocative and highly readable analysis of the high theory and low practices of music copyright and its transgressors. It is most refreshing to read a sociological analysis of a topic usually left to lawyers and industry apologists. An essential book for anyone who wants to understa
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-167) and index