Book chapter
Australian copyright regimes and political economy of music
Music Business and the Experience Economy: The Australasian Case, pp.11-26
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2013
Abstract
In this chapter I review the history of in Australia through a singular and exemplary ruling of the Australian High Court made in 2012 and then relate that to the declining fortunes of Australian recorded music professionals. The case in point is Phonographic Performance Company [PPCA] of Australia Limited v Commonwealth of Australia [2012] HCA 8 (hereafter, HCA 8 2012). The case encapsulates the history of copyright law in Australia, with the judicial decision drawing substantive parts of its rationale from the Statute of Anne (8 Anne, c. 19, 1710), as well as acts that regulated the Australian markets prior to 1968. More importantly the High Court decision serves to delineate some important political economic aspects of the recorded music professional in Australia and demonstrates Attali's (1985) assertion that copyright is the mechanism through which composers are, by statute, literally excluded from capitalistic engagement as 'productive labour'. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013. All rights are reserved.
Details
- Title
- Australian copyright regimes and political economy of music
- Authors
- Philip Graham (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
- Contributors
- Peter Tschmuck (Editor)Philip L Pearce (Editor)Steven Campbell (Editor)
- Publication details
- Music Business and the Experience Economy: The Australasian Case, pp.11-26
- Publisher
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-642-27898-3_2
- ISBN
- 9783642278983
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Creative Industries - Legacy; Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic)
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450546202621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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