In a short article, economics scholar Rasmus Fleischer (2015) offers a concise and illuminating history of the political processes leading to the 1961 Rome Convention and the formation of neighbouring rights. The author takes us back to the 1930s and the responses of musicians and record companies to the rise of the public use of records and radio. The struggles that unfolded between musicians unions, represented by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), and record companies, represented by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI, formed for this purpose in 1933), had different motivations.