@article{42049,
      author = {Brauneis, Robert},
      url = {http://tind.wipo.int/record/42049},
      title = {Copyright, Music, and Race : The Case of Mirror Cover  Recordings},
      abstract = {Has copyright law in the United States ever aided  discrimination on the basis of race, or exploitation of or  prejudice against racial minorities? Copyright legislation  in the United States has never explicitly incorporated  racial categories. However, particular features or  doctrines of copyright law may arguably facilitate racial  discrimination or exploitation, or disadvantage racial  minorities, in a more focused manner. K.J. Greene, Candace  Hines, and others have argued that copyright doctrines such  as the fixation requirement, the idea/expression dichotomy,  and the requirement of locating individual authors, as well  as former doctrines such as notice and registration  requirements and the requirement for written notation of  music, have disadvantaged racial minorities, and African  Americans in particular. This essay follows in those  footsteps, and investigates another set of copyright  doctrines that operated to the disadvantage of minority  creators. Those doctrines concern copyright protection of  musical works and sound recordings, and operated to deny  composers and musicians rights in what they added to songs  during the process of recording versions of them.},
      recid = {42049},
      pages = {33 pages},
}