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• The Piracy Crusade: How the Music Industry's War on Sharing Destroys Markets and Erodes Civil Liberties (Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, c2013), by Aram Sinnreich (PDF with commentary at piracycrusade.com and various other sites)

• Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion: Rhetoric in the Peer-to-Peer Debates (West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, c2006), by John Logie (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Copyright and Home Copying: Technology Challenges the Law (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Sound Souvenirs: Audio Technologies, Memory and Cultural Practices (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2009), ed. by Karin Bijsterveld and José van Dijck (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Wonderful Inventions: Motion Pictures, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound at the Library of Congress (Washington: The Library, 1985), ed. by Iris Newsom, contrib. by Erik Barnouw (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Latest Blues by Columbia Race Stars: Columbia New Process Records, Made the New Way, Electrically, Viva-Tonal Recording, The Records Without Scratch (ca. 1927), by Columbia Records, Inc. (page images at HathiTrust)

• Capturing Analog Sound for Digital Preservation: Report of a Roundtable Discussion of Best Practices for Transferring Analog Discs and Tapes (2006) (PDF at clir.org)

• Capturing Analog Sound for Digital Preservation: Report of a Roundtable Discussion of Best Practices for Transferring Analog Discs and Tapes (2006) (PDF at clir.org)

• Copyright and Related Issues Relevant to Digital Preservation and Dissemination of Unpublished Pre-1972 Sound Recordings by Libraries and Archives (2009), by June M. Besek (PDF with commentary at clir.org)
• Copyright Issues Relevant to Digital Preservation and Dissemination of Pre-1972 Commercial Sound Recordings by Libraries and Archives (2005), by June M. Besek (HTML and PDF with commentary at clir.org)

• Record Labeling: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session, on Contents of Music and the Lyrics of Records, September 19, 1985 (Washington: GPO, 1985), by United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cash Box (partial serial archives)
• Recording Musician (British magazine, 1992-1993) (full serial archives)

• Gramophone (1923-) (partial serial archives)

• Bytes and Backbeats: Repurposing Music in the Digital Age (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2011), by Steve Savage (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Vinyl Theory (Amherst, MA: Lever Press, c2020), by Jeffrey R. Di Leo
  • HTML and Epub with commentary at Lever Press
  • HTML and PDF at JSTOR

• Copyright and Related Issues Relevant to Digital Preservation and Dissemination of Unpublished Pre-1972 Sound Recordings by Libraries and Archives (2009), by June M. Besek (PDF with commentary at clir.org)
• Copyright Issues Relevant to Digital Preservation and Dissemination of Pre-1972 Commercial Sound Recordings by Libraries and Archives (2005), by June M. Besek (HTML and PDF with commentary at clir.org)

• Protection for Pre-1972 Sound Recordings under State Law and Its Impact on Use by Nonprofit Institutions: A 10-State Analysis (2009), by Washington College of Law Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, contrib. by Peter Jaszi and Nicholas B. Lewis (HTML and PDF with commentary at clir.org)

• The Art and Science of Audio Book Production (1995), by Billy R. West (HTML at loc.gov)

• Science Fiction and Fantasy (1994), by Library of Congress National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (page images at HathiTrust)

• Braille Book Review (partial serial archives)

• Talking Book Topics (with additional materials) (partial serial archives)

• A Philosophy of Cover Songs (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by P. D. Magnus (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Rock This Way: Cultural Constructions of Musical Legitimacy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Mel Stanfill (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• A Philosophy of Cover Songs (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by P. D. Magnus (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy (Punctum Books, 2021), by Martin Paul Eve (PDF with commentary at punctumbooks.com)
• The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture is Reinventing Capitalism (free download requires name and email (kept private); New York et al.: Free Press, 2008), by Matt Mason (PDF with commentary at thepiratesdilemma.com)
• Film Piracy, Organized Crime, and Terrorism (2009), by Gregory F. Treverton, Carl Matthies, Karla J. Cunningham, Jeremiah Goulka, Greg Ridgeway, and Anny Wong (PDF with commentary at rand.org)
• Shakespeare's Fight With the Pirates and the Problems of the Transmission of His Text (London: A. Moring, 1917), by Alfred W. Pollard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Media Piracy in Emerging Economies (New York: Social Science Research Council, 2011), ed. by Joe Karaganis (PDF with commentary at ssrc.org)
• Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Education (Cambridge, MA and London; et al: MIT Press, 2018), ed. by Joe Karaganis (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• The Piracy Crusade: How the Music Industry's War on Sharing Destroys Markets and Erodes Civil Liberties (Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, c2013), by Aram Sinnreich (PDF with commentary at piracycrusade.com and various other sites)
• The Digital Rights Movement: The Role of Technology in Subverting Digital Copyright (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2012), by Hector Postigo (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Policing Pirates in the Networked Age (2002), by Stan Liebowitz (PDF with commentary at cato.org)

• Cheap Book Production in the United States, 1870 to 1891 (masters thesis; Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Library, 1937), by Raymond H. Shove (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare and the Stationers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1955), by Leo Kirschbaum (PDF at Ohio State)

• Geek Mafia (c2006), by Rick Dakan
  • multiple formats at manybooks.net
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Film Piracy, Organized Crime, and Terrorism (2009), by Gregory F. Treverton, Carl Matthies, Karla J. Cunningham, Jeremiah Goulka, Greg Ridgeway, and Anny Wong (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Copyright and Home Copying: Technology Challenges the Law (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Whose Book is it Anyway? A View From Elsewhere on Publishing, Copyright and Creativity (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), ed. by Janis Jefferies and Sarah Kember (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• The Work of Authorship (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2014), ed. by Mireille M. M. van Eechoud (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• The Case for Copyright Reform (2012), by Christian Engström and Rick Falvinge (PDF with commentary at falkvinge.net)
• Access to Knowledge for Consumers: Reports of Campaigns and Research, 2008-2010 (Kuala Lumpur: Consumers International, 2010), ed. by Jeremy Malcolm (PDF with commentary at a2knetwork.org)
• Introducing Copyright: A Plain Language Guide to Copyright in the 21st Century (Vancouver, BC: Commonwealth of Learning, 2009), by Julien Hofman (PDF and Epub with commentary at col.org)
• Navigating Copyright for Libraries: Purpose and Scope (IFLA Publications v181; Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Saur, c2022), ed. by Jessica Coates, Victoria Owen, and Susan Reilly (PDF with commentary at degruyter.com)
• Walled Culture: How Big Content Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Keep Creators Poor (Antwerp: BTF Press, 2022), by Glyn Moody (multiple formats with commentary at walledculture.org)
• Copyright, its History and its Law: Being a Summary of the Principles and Practice of Copyright With Special Reference to the American Code of 1909 and the British Act of 1911 (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1912), by R. R. Bowker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Question of Copyright: Comprising the Text of the Copyright Law of the United States, a Summary of the Copyright Laws at Present in Force in the Chief Countries of the World (second edition; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1896), by George Haven Putnam (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Urheberrecht an Schriftwerken und Verlagsrecht (in German; Stuttgart: F. Enke, 1907), by Josef Kohler
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• American Copyright Law (Chicago: Callaghan and Co., 1917), by Arthur W. Weil (multiple formats at archive.org)

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