Tag: copyright
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Artists shouldn’t love corporate copyright
Every once in a while I bump into ‘artists’ (and I use that term loosely, quite often they are corporate shills, indie chancers or pretty new to the industry) who defend copyright laws, extensions and corporates. Happened again recently…What I find strange is that the enforcers of copyright (corporates, labels, media companies) don’t actually love…
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The Pre-History of Mashups – Medleys and Mixes
I suspect the public at large think that mashups are fairly new phenomenon, or at most 15 years old. [QI voice] This is not in fact true. Although sampling as a technology didn’t become widespread until the late 80’s (the likes of Art of Noise allowing, a band who also took parts of songs and…
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Soundcloud’s Raining On Your Parade
You might have heard a disturbance in the Force – many people crying out in pain suddenly at once. No it wasn’t the destruction of Alderaan, it was Soundcloud partnering with Zefr and thus many more tracks were taken down. I forecasted this would happen, rather than the ad-sponsored mashup/remix utopia that some were claiming…
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Everybody’s heard about the bird
And everybody should hear this mashup ‘Surfin Beasties’ from Pimpdaddysupreme – Family Guy vs Trashmen vs Diplo vs Beasties, made for BOOTIE DragonCon and recently made into a video by PDS. As he details in the description (you should click on the link to read that), all the tracks included themselves have a chequered copyright…