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The music publishing business

The music publishing business faces a number of new challenges in the developing Information Age, as does the music business as a whole. These challenges include both threats and opportunities, depending on how the various companies involved respond and on how the industry as a whole shapes future legislation, technology, and even the mind set of the consumer. Music publishing has a lengthy history, beginning before the advent of sound recording and adapting itself to each technological change--sound recording, radio, television, the LP, tape recording, and the compact disk. The music business as a whole adapted to each of these changes as well, and the music industry and the music publishing industry have had a symbiotic relationship as each feeds the needs of the other. This is more true with certain genres of music than others, though music publishers handle more than sheet music and oversee the copyright on songs and musical numbers for ancillary uses such as commercials and to prevent unpaid use. Currently, both the music industry and the music publishing industry face a threat from the computer in an era when music can be sent virtually intact over the Internet, copied by a variety of electronic means, and when the published music as well can be distributed widely over the Internet instantaneously. The industry has not yet settled on a course of action to counter this technology, nor has it come to grips with the many opportunities such technology might present to the industry itself.

Music publishing would become associated with the term Tin Pan Alley, the popular music corridor in New York City where music publishers flourished beginning about 1900. Here publishers would use singers to feature newly published works to sell them to the public. Publishers before the coming of Tin Pan Alley included small and large publishers across the country, from Chicago to San Francisco, and from Boston to Cincinnati to Galveston....

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