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Re: [ARSCLIST] "All hail the analogue revolution..."
Don Cox wrote:
>The comparison when the first acoustic recordings appeared would be with
>sheet music.
It actually was the music box and the player piano.
Compulsory mechanical reproduction licenses were the result of a massive lobbying effort by the player piano industry so that music publishers couldn't make an exclusive deal with one manufacturer for an extremely popular song. The two-cent statutory royalty only became negotiable under the 1970s copyright revision.
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