Category: Copyleft
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Fuck it all fuck it all….
Annoyingly the original from kittypawws is blocked by teh Evil Copyright Overlords, but love this parody of Frozen’s Let It Go – this is how it should have gone, I might have bothered to watch it then (yeah took me over a year to watch Brave, the more hyped something is the less likely I…
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?uestlove on sampling and hiphop
Tell the truth, James Brown was old ‘Til Eric and Ra came out with “I Got Soul” Rap brings back old R&B And if we would not, people could’ve forgot Stetsasonic came on the radio, and I’ve always loved this lyric as it really said what needed to be said about sampling in hiphop. Apparently…
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Department of Dirty
Love this film from the ‘Department of Dirty’. Spotted Dick! The site has details about how to remove filters, and it’s worth checking to see if your site has been blocked in the UK.
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Mary Had A Laser Bat
Wow – Vi Hart explains the 12-tone series, but also touches on patterns, creativity, philosophy, and creates some very good and funny versions of Mary Had A Little Lamb and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, but my favourite was the avant garde piece inspired by Copyright Law (she couldn’t use Schoenberg or Stravinsky because, copyright). This…
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Integrity and liability, or samplers shouldn’t throw stones
Mentioned this before on Twitter and Facebook, but I’ve been ignoring the sample litigation over here which really is the home of such discussions (for me anyway). This article on PolicyMic about the recent Beasties win made me kind of annoyed. Really not sure the Beasties suing people for millions of dollars is the epitome…