Music royalties and intellectual property
Catalogue buyers arrived long after the lawyers did: the useful books are music-business contract manuals plus economics of what a copyright is now worth.
6 books
Start here
- How Music Got FreeStephen Witt, 2015
- All You Need to Know About the Music BusinessDonald S. Passman, 1991
- RockonomicsAlan B. Krueger, 2019
Books 6
Donald S. Passman · 1991 · The standard contract-by-contract guide to where music money actually flows.
Stephen Witt · 2015 · How the MP3 destroyed recorded-music revenue and set up the streaming rebuild.
T2 Rockonomics
Alan B. Krueger · 2019 · An economist on superstar effects and the economics of the music industry.
Jeffrey Brabec, Todd Brabec · 1994 · The publishing-side reference on royalty streams and licensing income.
James Bessen, Michael J. Meurer · 2008 · Evidence that patents work poorly as property; the IP-as-asset skeptic case.
Rebecca Giblin, Cory Doctorow · 2022 · How intermediaries capture creative-work rents; the bear case for creators.