Professor Michael W. Carroll, American University Washington College of Law, discusses "Policies and Tools for Ensuring Access to Scholarship; the Future of Open Access" in this presentation from the Center for Study of the Public Domain's "Copyright Limitations and Exceptions: From Access to Research to Transformative Use" workshop. More information at http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/conferences/.

Why is music taking center stage in contemporary debates about copyright policy, and should it? To put this question in historical perspective, this talk first looks back to examine how and why music first came within copyright's domain. Focusing on the story of music copyright illuminates a dialectic relationship between the practices of particular creative communities and the organizing principle of authorial rights.