SOC202H5 Lecture Notes - The Pirate Bay, Bridgeport Music, Dan Glickman
Document Summary
Copyright material sampling reconceptualized and manipulated new art form is legit and deserves to be heard (girltalk; mixes very different songs into one) Dr laurence ferara intellectual property, music copywrite. Dominimus non cuerot lex - law concerned with insignificant offences: defence to protect nwa. Court decided its illegal to take anything from recording, not creative wake up call for industry. But this is the way hiphop works, so this is the death of hiphop music. Siva vaidhayanathan: the grey album by dj dangermouse jayzs black album and beatlees white album mixed together, released disks to friends on net and thousands had copies of it. Agreed not to do any more distribution but it was too late; instant classic. Very white and black thing to make beautiful music together- he wanted to change perceptions about music and what you can do. Most successful album of 2005, might"ve been biggest hit of year- but nobody made a dime, dj, beatles, nor jayz.
