Music Copyright Creativity and Culture by Jenkins – Edition 2024

“This is a book about music copyright: about owning music. You have probably heard stories where one musician is accused of copying another’s song. Maybe one of your favorite artists has been involved in such a dispute. By the time you finish reading this book, you will be able to tell your friends what the law might say about it: the lines it would draw between legitimate inspiration by shared cultural themes and outright theft that will result in substantial monetary damages. But you will know a lot more. You will have explored how a society even comes to think of music as something that can be owned: the cultural, technological, economic, and legal prerequisites of the system”–