Smith, Bessie, 40, 53, 56
Smith, Byron, 165
Smith, Charles Edward, 38, 41–3, 53, 96
Smith, Oberlin, 66
Smith, Patti, 105–6, 108, 154, 155 (fig.)
Smith, Pine Top, 54
Smith, Steve, 39–42
Snoop Doggy Dogg, 167
social media, 202, 204, 213, 215. See also Facebook; YouTube
Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998, 203
Sony, 82, 88, 157, 181
Souchon, Harry, 128–9
Sound Duplicating Systems, 144
Sound of Music, The, 154, 183
Sound Recording Act of 1971 (US), 135–6, 138, 143, 147, 149, 201
Soundmirror recorder, 69–70
Source, The, 168
Sousa, John Philip, 25–6, 29
Soviet Union, 26, 182–3
Spell My Name Right (Statik Selektah), 174
Spotify, 215–6
Springfield, Dusty, 105
Springsteen, Bruce, 152, 155–6
Stallman, Richard, 162, 211
Standard Talking Machine Company, 13
Starchild, 165, 167
Statik Selektah, 174
Stationers’ Company, 2
Stephanopoulos, George, 195
Stereo Eight tape, 84, 87
Stereo Review, 72, 96, 128, 153
Stewart, Potter, 50, 138
Stille, Curt, 66–7
Stout, William, 102
Sugar Hill Gang, 164, 166
Supreme Court (US), 31, 44, 67, 86, 118, 142, 176, 205, 214
and “hot news” doctrine, 32–3
and right to copy, 80–1, 202
and scope of copyright, 19–21, 88–9, 120, 123–4
support for stronger property rights, 7, 136–8, 149
Suhalan, Andi, 190
Sulzer, William, 26
Super Sounds company, 102
“Super Sporm” (Captain Sky), 166
supervening necessity, 66
Svenonius, Ian, 172
Swaggie label, 59–61
Sweden, 59, 60 (fig.), 176, 179 (fig.)
Sweet Apple Trax (The Beatles), 104
Taiwan, 175, 177–8, 183–5, 191, 195
“Taliban Song” (Toby Keith), 8
Talking Machine World, 30
Talk-O-Phone, 14, 29
Tall, Joel, 73
Tampa Red’s Hokum Jug Band, 59, 128
Tanks for the Mammaries, 105
Tape, The (Kid Capri), 167, 170
Tape Industries Association of America, 86
Target, 209
Taub, Edd, 109
Tauzin, Billy, 191
Taylor, James, 103, 115
Taylor, Michael “Dub,” 96
Teenage Perversity and Ships in the Night (Patti Smith), 105–6
Telefunken label, 80
Television (band), 105, 154
Terkel, Studs, 53
Terranova, Tiziana, 174
Terrasini, Claudia, 76–7
Thailand, 177, 189, 195–6
Thatcher, Margaret, 177, 211
Thorvald Solberg, 27
Thriller (Michael Jackson), 190, 198
TI, 208
Times Up (Buzzcocks), 154
TMQ (Trade Mark of Quality) label, 102–3, 113, 152
Tokyo Round, 192
Top 40 radio format, 97
Top Hat label, 36
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles), 63
Tower Records, 196–7, 209
Toyota, 208
trademark, 14, 49, 100, 102–3, 125, 135–6, 183, 192–4
Traffic, 158
“Trans Europe Express” (Kraftwerk), 166
transformative appropriation, 205–6
transistor, 81–2
Triple Cee, 167
TRIPS (Agreement on Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights), 193–8
Troitsky, Artemy, 93
Troubled Troubadour, 101
Truitt, Thomas, 112, 133
Tweedy, Jeff, 214
Twin/Tone Records, 163
UK Anti-Piracy Group, 184
Ultra Rare Trax series (The Beatles), 163
Uncle Wiggly, 101–3, 109
unfair competition, 32, 46–50, 73, 75, 118, 125, 130, 136, 142
United Arab Emirates, 176, 185
United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization, 186
United States Constitution. See Constitution (US)
Universal Studios, 202
Uptown Records, 168
Uruguay Round, 192–5
US Government Accountability Office, 208
US Record Corporation, 35
Vaidhyanathan, Siva, 171, 204
Vail, Theodore, 67
Valenti, Jack, 193, 203
Variety, 55, 57
Varsity label, 35
VCR, 180, 183
Venzor, Osvaldo, 140
Verdi, 76
VHS tape, 79, 187
Viacom, 8
Vicky Vinyl, 156
Victor Talking Machine Company. See RCA Victor
Victorian era, 70
Vietnam War, 97, 103, 116
vinyl record, 11–2, 38, 76, 84–7, 95, 121, 131, 135, 142, 176, 180
and collectors, 38, 52
as bootleg medium, 55, 65, 94, 157
decline of, 85, 163
introduction of, 51–2
Wagner, Richard, 36, 76–7, 87
Wagner-Nichols, 48–9, 125–6. See also Metropolitan Opera v. Wagner-Nichols (1950)
Walbrunn, Magda, 76
Walkman, 181
Waller, Fats, 59, 60 (fig.)
Ward, Ed, 107, 116
Warner Brothers, 108
Warner Communications International, 181
Warren, Earl, 81, 137–8
Wattenberg, Philip P., 122
Watts, Alan, 106
War on Drugs, 212–3
Wax label, 50
wax cylinder, 2, 12–6, 20, 30, 41, 69–70, 87, 89, 96, 212
WBAI station, 108 (fig.)
WBO Broadcasting, 45–6, 48. See also RCA v. Whiteman (1940)
Weiss, Hy, 132
Welles, Orson, 63
Wenders, Wim, 93
Westerberg, Paul, 163
What’s Happening!!, 150–1
Whatever and Ever Amen (Ben Folds Five), 8
White Album (The Beatles), 99–100, 104
White, Byron, 138
“White Power” (The Beatles), 104
Whiteman, Paul, 45–6, 48. See also RCA v. Whiteman (1940)
White-Smith Music Publishing Company. See White-Smith v. Apollo (1908)
White-Smith v. Apollo (1908), 19–21, 23, 28, 31–2, 120, 137
Whitford Committee (UK), 187–8
Who, The, 94
Wilco, 214–5
“Wild One” (Bobby Rydell), 57
Wilen, Dennis, 104
Williams, Clarence, 43, 176
Wilson, Pete, 195
wire recording, see magnetic recording
Wired, 161, 209, 211
Wizardo label, 153
WNEW station, 45
Wolff, Sanford, 147
Wood, Kimba, 200
Wood, Park, 124–5
works for hire, 27, 122, 145, 147
World’s Fair (1939), 69
WTO (World Trade Organization), 194
Xerox, 65, 78, 120
Yancey, Jimmy, 53–5
“Yancey Special” (Meade Lux Lewis), 53–4
Yarnell, Jules, 140–1, 143
Yew, Lee Kuan, 184, 190
Young, Neil, 115
YouTube, 1, 8, 207, 213–4
ZAP (Ze Anonym Plattenspieler) label, 102–3, 155 (fig.)
Zappa, Frank, 158
zines, 39, 97, 146, 157, 162
Zongo, Ousame, 212
Zon-O-Phone, 14, 29
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