🥺 📰 I was thinking I want to finally start writing an article about the failed lawsuit by #klezmer musician Max Leibowitz against Columbia Records for copyright infringement. It's strange but I can't find any coverage of it in the #Yiddish press at the time. Maybe it was just too niche of a thing, despite it involving some music celebrities (Leibowitz, Schwartz and Brandwein). #MusicHistory
(here's a 1925 article I found about a similar copyright case about the theatre composition Eli, Eli)
I don't know if I'm searching the wrong terms; nothing under the names of the people involved, name of the melody or Columbia.
According to modern dictionaries the word for copyright in #Yiddish is דרוקרעכט (drukrekht), אויטאָררעכט ,(oytorrekht), מחבר רעכט (mekhaber rekht) etc. However those bring up even less press results than the very literal transliteration קאָפּירײַט (kopirayt)...
Just a general question for #MusicHistory#Ethnomusicology people etc., do you have suggestions for interesting articles about music copyright and folk / public domain music, especially in a historical context? Just looking for inspiration...
I found some interesting stuff in academic databases, but keywords like folk music copyright history bring up such a wide set of results that I'm sure I'm missing a lot of the most interesting things.
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