BMM Bulletin jubileumnummer, p. 26-58, Olivier Vrins: "On the occasion of the BMM’s fortieth anniversary, we thought that this special issue of The Bulletin could not pay a better tribute to intellectual property than by examining its history. Given that the overall theme of this jubilee is music, I have chosen in this contribution to examine how the emergence of author’s rights and copyright influenced (or, indeed, failed to influence) the lives of composers. As anniversaries are all about fun, lawyers will find (almost) nothing in this article that will be of interest to their cases. I only cherish the hope that, by reading in the following pages of the frustrations expressed by musicians in the past, readers will answer in their minds to the question of whether or not the law as it stands today would have enabled them to have avoided those frustrations."
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