CFP: The Digital Nation: Copyright, Technology and Politics (abstracts due Feb 1)

The open access Journal of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, IASPM Journal, is seeking papers that address the various current technological, legal and cultural issues related to music copyright. We particularly welcome papers that frame these issues in specific national or regional contexts, to provide a distinctive overview of how nations are attempting to reconcile increasingly global trade and intellectual property structures with local practices, needs and histories.

Abstracts due Feb 1, 2012.

Copyright debates continue to be interesting in the popular music industries for many reasons. Copyright remains a chief mechanism by which the recording and related publishing industries derive income, status and wealth. Yet it is also increasingly an index of measurement of nations’ viability as knowledge economies as much as an index of the tensions between producers and consumers of music.

This special issue seeks to capitalise on the breadth of IASPM national knowledge to present a diverse conversation about similarities and differences in copyright law, structures and practices. Possible topics can include, but are not restricted to:

digital music distribution
creative digital music production techniques
open source and ‘copyleft’ music production
music copyright issues in scholarly publications and research

Proposals of 250 words should be sent to Geoff.Stahl(at)vuw.ac.nz and Shane.Homan(at)monash.edu by 1 February 2012.

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