Abstract
This article dealt with a music copyright. Mass consumption of the musical works gave big influence to the copyright system, and a system to control a copyright intensively was made. I chase a process of the circulation of the musical works, the use and generation and the development of the music copyright from the legal system and the social side. This article passes through the Revolution period from Ancien régime in France, and to reach the establishment of SACEM in the 19th century. Therefore it is considered the history of the score publication, a French copyright system, the sudden rise of the management system of the music copyright.
