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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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