Music Copyright Law Resources : Scholarly Articles
This is a basic guide to help you get started on researching music copyright law.
General Reference
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Oxford Music Online (UW-Licensed)Contains Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music, and The Oxford Dictionary of Music. Includes a couple extensive articles on Copyright, which includes its history and presence in various countries.
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HeinOnlineFull-text legal periodicals, historical texts, foreign & international materials, and primary legal materials in PDF, including the Federal Register, U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Reports & attorney general opinions, state session laws, and more.
Article Databases (UW-Licensed)
Below are links to databases that cover this subject area.
- Some sample keywords you might want to use when searching databases:
- peer-to-peer file sharing
- music industry
- music business
- music lawsuit
- music piracy
- litigation and digital music
- intellectual property and music
- fair use and music
- Digital Millennium Copyright Act
- music orphan works
- music and public domain
The following are article databases especially relevant to this topic that cover popular and scholarly journals from a range of time periods and countries.
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Music Periodicals DatabaseScholarly and popular. It provides indexing and abstracts for 665 international music periodicals, plus full text for around 270 journals. This database was formerly known as International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP)
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JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal ArchiveFull text of more than 1,200 titles in the fields of African-American studies, anthropology, architecture, Asian studies, economics, education, film, finance, folklore, history, language, literature, middle east studies, music, philosophy, political science, religion, sociology, and more. Publication coverage begins with volume 1 of each title and continues to within 3 to 5 years of the most current issue.
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Academic SearchA multi-disciplinary database providing full text for more than 4,650 journals, including approximately 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. A total of 8,450 journals are indexed and abstracted.
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LexisNexis AcademicContains approximately 5,000 legal, news, reference, and business sources, most full text. It includes international and U.S. newspapers, ethnic and regional news sources, magazines, wire services, newsletters, trade journals, company and industry analyst reports, and broadcast transcripts.
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Historical AbstractsMostly scholarly. Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present. Covers publications from 1954-present. All entries include abstracts. Use "Historical Period" limiter on search page to limit to the historical era you are researching!
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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (RILM)Mostly scholarly. Covers publications from 1969-present. All entries include abstracts. Coverage includes traditional music, popular music, and classical music, representing disciplines that include musicology, ethnomusicology, pedagogy, psychology, anthropology, sociology and others. Document types are mostly journal articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings.
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Music IndexScholarly and popular. Covers publications from 1973-present. No abstracts. Indexes over 850 music periodicals from over 40 countries, including book reviews, obituaries, news periodicals, and news and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry.