Tag: Universal Music Group
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Girls vs Boys: Fair use and advertising
I really liked the Goldieblox advert when I saw it, the attitude, the aim of getting more girls into STEM. I didn’t even think about the backing music much apart from thinking it was a slightly odd but subversive choice as a fun parody of Beastie Boys very misogynistic and not-at-all kid-friendly ‘Girls’. It seems…
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I’ve been quoted in a Mashup PHD Dissertation…
…by way of GYBO and a lot of other mashup/bootleg peeps including interview with a lot of the US bootleggers! Liam McGranahan’s dissertation “Mashnography: Creativity, Consumption, and Copyright in the Mashup Community” as part of his doctorate from Brown University is available here, a ‘mashnography’ study into the ethnography of the bootleg scene. BTW timbearland…