Owning the Masters: A History of Sound Recording Copyright

＂The story of how record companies gained ownership of sound recording rights and examines the consequences of this ownership for musical creation and reception＂--

Richard Osborne is Senior Lecturer in Popular Music at Middlesex University, UK. Prior to becoming a lecturer he worked in record shops, held various posts at PRS for Music and co-managed a pub. He is the author of Vinyl: A History of the Analogue Record (2012) and Mute Records (2019).