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Ethnomusicologists, Archives, Professional Organizations, and the Shifting Ethics of Intellectual Property

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2019

Anthony Seeger
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We are living in an age of transnational development and major changes in transportation, communication, leisure activities, and work environments. For centuries, and in some places still, the accumulation of land and the enslavement or employment of farm laborers has ensured wealth. In many places this was supplanted by the ownership of factories and the employment of manual labor, or the ownership and exploitation of non-renewable raw materials such as oil, coal, and precious metals. But today the richest man in the United States is not the owner of a large ranch or a railroad, or of vast reserves of petroleum. He is Bill Gates, the owner of a computer software company called Microsoft. One of the United States’ largest exports is entertainment “software” — films, television, recordings, and computer software. Ideas are big, big business, and even U.S. foreign policy is influenced by considerations of intellectual property.

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Yearbook for Traditional Music , Volume 28 , 1996 , pp. 87 - 105
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Copyright © 1996 By The International Council for Traditional Music

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An earlier draft of this paper was read at the 33rd World Conference of the ICTM in Canberra, Australia, 11 January 1995. I am indebted to numerous members of the Council for their careful reading and discussions.

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