Talk:History of music publishing

by permission
User talk:Jenniferpress who submitted this article left a message at User talk:Master of Puppets that follows:

History of Music Publishing This page is used by permission. The author, Nicholas Firth (Chairman and CEO, BMG Music Publishing), asked me to excerpt and upload the text of a speech he gave to a business class at Belmont University in 2004. His speech is a great in-depth history and development of music publishing and the music publishing industry on a global level. The speech was researched and written by Mr. Firth.

~Jennifer Press Director, Communications BMG Music Publishing

Rewrite/cleanup
This article is in need of a major rewrite/cleanup. I have begun work on this, and plan to continue. Much of the material on copyright can be deleted and linked to History of copyright. Any help/comments appreciated. --Goodmanjaz 19:39, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Even if this is a transcript of a lecture, certain things need to be wikified, and i don't like the use of the term "most civilized countries" at the bottom of the article JameiLei 17:44, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

The following sentence in the "sheet music" section need to be corrected:

"At that time, one million copies of sheet music yielded approximately $100,000 (about €700,00 in today’s money) for the publisher. "

the currency conversion doesn't seem to be correct. Fablau 15:38, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Neutral point of view
This article has a point of view problem.

Although it correctly records that copyright was created in order to protect the profits of publishers through monopoly or cartel, it goes on to make the usual disconnect that it was created "to safeguard the rights of a composer". No support is given for that statement. For balance, there should be some mention of the many 20th century composers (in popular music genres) who have told stories of signing away rights for low lump sums or small percentages.

Calling the establishment of performing rights fees an "honor" is POV. The very concept was new in the 18th century. How it gained popular and legal support should be told. In particular, SACD and SACEM were formed as virtually labor unions for writers, and how they were transformed into arms of the publishing industry would be interesting to record. Similarly the dispute over ASCAP that led to the formation of BMI definitely should be described here.

I agree about deferring most of copyright history to pages about copyright, but some mention of the pressure by the music and movie industries to extend copyright to very lengthy terms belongs here. JoeBrennan (talk) 18:40, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Chronological problem
Re: "Elizabeth I ... Later, King Henry VIII" -- Elizabeth was after Henry! AnonMoos (talk) 22:50, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Indeed she was....being his daughter...Barryspearce (talk) 20:06, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Beginnings of Modern Music publishing?
This section is lacking some very important information and gives a bias which would not be present if more information was covered.

It suggests that modern music printing started around 1754. This simply if vastly inaccurate. The article also fails to completely mention John Walsh, John Playford and his sons and so on.

John Playford's English Dancing Master was a publishing phenomenon - its first edition published in 1651 it was so popular it went on to be published in 18 editions, with two subsequent volumes each with multiple editions all being printed up until 1728. See John Playford. Also see John Walsh

Music publishing in England at this time was significant and prolific. Barryspearce (talk) 20:06, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

First figure
The first figure gives 1470 as one of the last dates for a hand-copied manuscript. This cannot be true since for most types of music to be played by professional musicians, hand copying was the norm through the baroque period, whereas music for amateurs (wider market) was printed much earlier. Competition between printers and copyists in the 18th century is well-documented. --♦♦♦Vlmastra♦♦♦ (talk) 15:12, 11 December 2016 (UTC)