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The Recording Industry, 2d ed.

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The Recording Industry. 2d ed. By Geoffrey P. Hull. New York: Routledge, 2004. [xii, 335 p. ISBN 0-415-96803-8. $85.] Index, bibliography, glossary, tables.

The second edition of Geoffrey Hull's book, The Recording Industry, is a well-organized, in-depth, and thorough overview of the industry. Since Hull's forte is copyright and entertainment law, and he is one of the founders of and professors in the Recording Industry Department at Middle Tennessee State University, he is eminently qualified for such an undertaking. Why a second edition?

Within a year of publication of the first edition ... two significant events altered the landscape of the music business. First, two of the major labels, PolyGram and-Universal, merged. That reduced the number of major labels to five and created the largest recording company in the world, Universal Music Group. Second, Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Copyright Term Extension Act. These two pieces of legislation, prompted...

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