Australian Copyright Regimes and Political Economy of Music

Phil Graham ()
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Phil Graham: Queensland University of Technology

A chapter in Music Business and the Experience Economy, 2013, pp 11-26 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this chapter I review the history of copyright 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 copyright 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’.

Keywords: Compulsory License; Music Industry; Copyright Infringement; Musical Work; Record Company (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-27898-3_2

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