MUI 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Audio Home Recording Act, Means Test, No Electronic Theft Act
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Mui 221: survey of the music industry lecture 3: amendments, a story of woe, Digital audio tapes where introduced in late 60"s. Cd"s were a combination of sony (japan) and phillips (europe) When analog recordings were copied, each time quality was lost with each copy. Digital recordings could be copied without loss of quality (late 80"s) The copyright act of 1976 has been amended more that 50 times: Digital performance right in sound recordings act of 1995. Established sound exchange the mechanism by which these digital performance royalties are distributed. The labels could get a performance royalty from circle p, but has to be digital performance. Imposes criminal penalties for distribution of copies, files or software for. Includes the receipt (or exception of receipt) of anything of value, including copyrighted music. Does not need to involve money e. g. people give away illegal downloads of music for free. Established criminal penalties for cracking anti piracy measures.
