iTake-Over: The Recording Industry in the Digital Era sheds light on the way large corporations appropriate new technologies related to
recording and distribution of audio material to maintain their market dominance in a capitalist system. All too commonly, scholars have asserted too confidently how the rise and reign of
digital music have diminished the power of major record labels. In iTake-Over, music scholar David Arditi argues otherwise, adopting a
broader perspective by examining how the recording industry has strengthened copyright laws for their corporate ends at the expense of the broader public good, which has traditionally depended
on the safe harbor of fair use. Arditi also challenges the dominant discourse over digital music distribution, which has largely adopted the position that the recording industry has a
legitimate claim to profitability at the detriment of a shared culture. This work should appeal to musicians and music scholars, political scientists and sociologists, technologists and audio
professionals seeking to grasp this remarkable change in music production and consumption.
