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- The Cambridge Handbook of Intellectual Property and Social Justice
- The Cambridge Handbook of Intellectual Property and Social Justice
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- About the Contributors
- Foreword
- Prolusion: What Is Intellectual Property (And Why Should You Care About It Anyway?) – A Layperson’s Guide to Intellectual Property Law
- Introduction: Intellectual Property Social Justice Theory: History, Development, and Description
- Part I IP Social Justice Foundations
- Part II IP Social Justice in Major Intellectual Property Domains
- Part III IP Social Justice: Historical Perspectives
- Part IV IP Social Justice in the Political Economy: Engaging Activism; Achieving Change
- Part V IP Social Justice in the Information Age
- Part VI Intellectual Property Social Justice in Global Perspective: Issues in Gender and Development Disparity
- 19 Intellectual Property Social Justice on the International Plane
- 20 Intellectual Property, Social Justice, and Human Development
- 21 Controversial Trademarks: A Comparative Analysis
- 22 The Role of Nonrightsholder Advocates and Academics in Achieving Social Justice Balance in Copyright: The Case of Colombia
- 23 Exposing Gender Bias in Intellectual Property Law: The UK Music Industries
- Part VII IP Social Justice: The Future of the Global IP Ecosystem
23 - Exposing Gender Bias in Intellectual Property Law: The UK Music Industries
from Part VI - Intellectual Property Social Justice in Global Perspective: Issues in Gender and Development Disparity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 January 2024
- The Cambridge Handbook of Intellectual Property and Social Justice
- The Cambridge Handbook of Intellectual Property and Social Justice
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- About the Contributors
- Foreword
- Prolusion: What Is Intellectual Property (And Why Should You Care About It Anyway?) – A Layperson’s Guide to Intellectual Property Law
- Introduction: Intellectual Property Social Justice Theory: History, Development, and Description
- Part I IP Social Justice Foundations
- Part II IP Social Justice in Major Intellectual Property Domains
- Part III IP Social Justice: Historical Perspectives
- Part IV IP Social Justice in the Political Economy: Engaging Activism; Achieving Change
- Part V IP Social Justice in the Information Age
- Part VI Intellectual Property Social Justice in Global Perspective: Issues in Gender and Development Disparity
- 19 Intellectual Property Social Justice on the International Plane
- 20 Intellectual Property, Social Justice, and Human Development
- 21 Controversial Trademarks: A Comparative Analysis
- 22 The Role of Nonrightsholder Advocates and Academics in Achieving Social Justice Balance in Copyright: The Case of Colombia
- 23 Exposing Gender Bias in Intellectual Property Law: The UK Music Industries
- Part VII IP Social Justice: The Future of the Global IP Ecosystem
Summary
The music industries in the United Kingdom (U.K.) have seen several damning reports in the last few years. The 2019 report “Counting the Music Industry: The Gender Gap” paints a bleak picture,1 where most signed artists by major (traditional) record labels and music publishers in the U.K. are male. U.K. music publishers have in the reported period signed 12,040 writers, out of which only 14.18 percent are women. In similar vein, female musicians make up only 19.69 percent of the rosters of the acts signed to music labels. This severe underrepresentation of women is also reflected in the statistics of music played on U.K. radio, where a 2020 report finds that women are often (if not always) left out, with some radio stations not playing female artists at all.
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