ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerns copyright and music. It presents stress on the material geographies and practice challenges the norms of debate that have been dominated by concern with the immaterial and the virtual. The chapter argues that such conceptual and practical focus on de-materialization has obscured, or distracted, analyses to such an extent that it has rendered invisible the geographical. Copyright and music are often used in the same sentence, and the issue of piracy and downloading has become the stuff of moral panics. By focusing on consumption and distribution, and the (disembodied) digital, people have become disconnected from the materiality of musical production. Markets are configured and promoted by charts and commentary, the digital platforms, and accompanying social media operations to promote and rapidly turn over stars, driving the market to concentration and monopoly profits.
