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Democracy of Sound: Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright in the Twentieth Century

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by Alex Sayf Cummings


  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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