Music and Cyberliberties

200 Pages·2010·2.468 MB·English

by  Patrick Burkart

Music and Cyberliberties
Celestial Jukebox by Rob Sussman
P A T R I C K B U R KA RT
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Music and Cyberliberties
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wesle yan unive rsit y press
Middletown, Connecticut
Published by Wesleyan University Press,
Middletown, CT 06459
www.wesleyan.edu/wespress
© 2010 by Patrick Burkart
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
5 4 3 2 1
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Burkart, Patrick, 1969–
Music and cyberliberties / Patrick Burkart.
p. cm. — (Music/culture)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 978-0-8195-6917-2 (cloth : alk. paper) —
isbn 978-0-8195-6918-9 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Music and the Internet. 2. Sound recording
industry. 3. Internet —Social aspects. I. Title.
ml3790.b847 2009
306.4(cid:1)842--dc22 2009036025
Wesleyan University Press is a member of the Green
Press Initiative. The paper used in this book meets their
minimum requirement for recycled paper.
Contents
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Acknowledgments vii
List of Abbreviations ix
Introduction 1
1. Saving a Place for Music 15
2. Creating the Music Lifeworld Online 34
3. Culture Clashes on the Internet 65
4. Projects and Prospects 94
5. Ethics and Aesthetics 124
6. Conclusion 137
Appendix: The Future of Music Coalition Manifesto 140
Notes 143
References 149
Index 167
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Acknowledgments
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I am grateful to Vinny Mosco, who provided inspiration for this project.
Encouragement and considerable assistance came from my friends and col-
leagues, including Tom McCourt, Eric Rothenbuhler, John Downing,
Harris M. Berger, Kembrew McLeod, Jim Aune, Linda Putnam, and Char-
ley Conrad. Joel Schalit, Brock Craft, and Joseph Lopez provided feedback
at all stages of this project, and Mike Godwin, Gwen Hinze, Wendy Seltzer,
and Fred von Lohmann made themselves accessible for my many questions.
Thanks to Kip Keller for preparing my manuscript, and to the Melbern G.
Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, the Ford Foundation Program
on Media, Arts, and Culture, and the Texas A&M University European
Union Center for providing support for this research.
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Abbreviations
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AAC advanced audio coding
AAIM American Association of Independent Music
ACLU American Civil Liberties Union
ACME Action Coalition for Media Education
ALA American Library Association
A&R artist and repertoire
ARPANET Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
ASCAP American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers
AT&T American Telephone and Telegraph
A2K Access to Knowledge
BBS bulletin board system
BLO Barbie Liberation Organization
BMI Broadcast Music Inc.
BMG Bertelsmann Music Group
CDD Center for Digital Democracy
CFP Computers, Freedom, and Privacy
CIMA Center for International Media Action
CODEC coder-decoder language
COO chief operating oYcer
CPSR Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
CRIS Communication Rights in the Information Society
CRM customer relationship management
CSS content-scrambling system
CVS concurrent versions system
DDoS distributed denial of service
DIY do-it-yourself
DMCA Digital Millenium Copyright Act
DMCRA Digital Media Consumer Rights Act