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"Introduction" [2015] ELECD 1267; in Rahmatian, Andreas (ed), "Concepts of Music and Copyright" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015) ix

Book Title: Concepts of Music and Copyright

Editor(s): Rahmatian, Andreas

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781783478187

Section Title: Introduction

Number of pages: 6

Extract:

Introduction
Andreas Rahmatian

What is the relationship between copyright and music? How does
copyright perceive music? How do musicians see the purpose of copy-
right for music?
This edited collection of chapters on music and copyright, with four
musicians and musicologists and four copyright lawyers as contributors,
grew out of an interdisciplinary workshop on music and copyright at the
University of Glasgow that I organised on the occasion of the tercente-
nary celebrations of Glasgow Law School in 2013. This workshop,
`Artistry and Artificiality? Music and Copyright', took place on 6
September 2013. Its aim was to bring together musicians and musicol-
ogists with copyright law specialists, and to make musicians think about
copyright and lawyers reflect about music.
This collection is truly interdisciplinary, a path often welcomed but
less often followed. When lawyers do interdisciplinary work in intellec-
tual property law, this tends to be cross-disciplinary within the law (for
example, copyright and human rights) or it descends into a kind of
law-and-economics study in which legal institutions and (hermeneutic)
interpretative methods are remodelled as economic concepts and, where
that proves difficult, a call for reforming (or deforming) the law is
frequently put forward so as to bring `positive' law more in line with the
supposedly immutable, universal `natural' laws of the all-encompassing
market. In this intellectual climate the arts and humanities naturally fare
badly, and the potential of philosophy and the humanities for inter-
disciplinary legal studies is too much neglected. This is particularly ...