Music Copyright

Making Audio stories		Music Copyright	The website for writers WritersServices has over 1300 pages	To help you find Search Contents
Preparing your text	Tips & technicalities	New Site inside WritersServices	Editing for audio	Audio issues

Music Copyright

Recording technology has grown up since the first recording device as this brief history shows.

	1877 - Edison made the first recording of a human voice on the first tinfoil cylinder ("Mary had a little lamb")
	1888 - Emile Berliner made the first gramophone using a flat 7-inch disk
	1901 - The 78-rpm record speed is standardized by Victor for its spring motor phonograph in 1901.
	1919 - The 33-1/3 speed is created for the electrical recording at Bell Labs
	1931 - Pfleumer and AEG begin to construct the first magnetic tape recorders.
	1939 - Wire recorder invented in US
	1944 - 3M Co. (Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing) began tape-coating experiments in U.S. under Ralph J Oace.
	1949 - The 45-rpm speed is created by RCA Victor for the 7-inch microgroove record in 1949.
	1965 - Philips introduced the compact cassette for consumer audio recording and playback on small portable machines such as the Norelco Carry-Corder 150.
	1982 – Beginning of the digital revolution with the first digital audio 5-inch CD discs.
	1985 - Sony and Philips product standard for CD Read Only Memory (CD-ROM)
	1987 - Digital Audio Tape (DAT) players introduced
	1995 - All companies in the DVD consortium agreed to DVD standards.
	1997 - MP3.com is founded in November by Michael Robertson.
	1999 – Napster peer-to-peer file sharing software, launched
	2001 – Napster has to stop.