From the Phonograph to Spotify: The History of Streaming Music
Hubspot
MARCH 8, 2017
The roots of Victor are fuzzy at best, but according to The Fabulous Phonograph , it was founded in 1903 as the Victor Talking Machine Company. But Caruso’s signing was a precursor to the Copyright Act of 1909 that required record sale royalties to be paid to the writers and publishers of songs, but not to the people who performed them.
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