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Re: [microsound] The Register speaks out on copyright and remix nerds ...





At 10:09 AM 7/21/2005 -0400, john saylor wrote:
hi

On 7/21/05, Jan L. <jan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A long last a very sensible article on this ...
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/21/creativity/

eh- i didn't think it was too sensible.

bb> Seconded...while I found the tone to be seductively sensible, the whole argument that we've been muddling through OK so far by letting people with power and laws screw up culture-making is bogus. I don't think the author has addressed the fact that the sort of cultural hybrids that have made possible things like the blues, rock and roll, beat poetry, early hip-hop, rembetica, tropicalismo, some be-bop, even traditional celtic music and bluegrass are completely hamstrung if not actively destroyed by current copyright practices.


I'm willing to be classified as a "remix nerd" but please put my efforts in the right category: traditions of appropriation and creative recontextualization, not bootleggers...




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