Project Four; KM, JC

Sampling and Copyright in the Information Age : 

Sampling and Copyright in the Information Age Jasmine Crespo & Kristina Mann

Slide 2: 

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”

Sampling : 

Sampling Musical process in which a portion of one song is taken and then reused or added to another song to create a brand new recording.

The Merit of Sampling : 

The Merit of Sampling Steve Albini Corey Moss Sampling is lazy!

The Grey Album : 

The Grey Album DJ Danger Mouse 2004 The Beatles’ White Album Jay-Z’s Black Album It took me two weeks to produce the album!

Technology Has Changed: Should Our Copyright Laws too? : 

Technology Has Changed: Should Our Copyright Laws too? U.S. currently uses the Copyright Act of 1976 Out of date? Our sources say yes!

Slide 8: 

Sugarhill Gang sing “Rapper’s Delight” Synthesizer

Slide 9: 

GirlTalk: One Man. One Computer. Many Samples.

Slide 10: 

1790 1976 1998 British Copyright Law U.S. establishes first copyright regulation U.S. creates current Copyright Act U.S. adds most recent amendment to Copyright Law- extends protection Wesch: “We’ll need to rethink a few things… [such as] copyright, authorship, commerce, governance…" Sirois: "Getting paid for your artistic expression during its original introduction to the marketplace is a right, but getting paid thirty years down the road by a producer who uses three seconds of the original goes against the Constitutional grain of copyright" Copyright 1709

Impeding Artists’ Creativity and the Further Development of Culture : 

Impeding Artists’ Creativity and the Further Development of Culture "placed constraints on the creativity...of artists"

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“Current legislation is inhibiting new expressions by threatening financial penalties.” -Sirois and Martin “Our future is becoming less free.” - Brett Gaylor

Potential Modernization of Copyright Laws : 

Potential Modernization of Copyright Laws “Legal regulation needs to be reconsidered in light of how it affects the purposes of private property rights...using [a] ‘standard of recognizability’” - Martin We'll take all of these suggestions as well as the opinions of our other sources into consideration when we determine what an ethics of appropriation for sampling today should entail. I’m a parasite!

Works Cited : 

Works Cited Moss, Corey. "Grey Album Producer Danger Mouse Explains How He Did It - News Story | Music, Celebrity, Artist News | MTV News." New Music Videos, Reality TV Shows, Celebrity    News, Top Stories | MTV. 11 Mar. 2004. Web. 01 Mar. 2010. Goldfinger, Johnny, and Thomas R. Schlatter. "Political Theory, Hip-Hop Culture, and Property Rights in the Music Industry." Conference Papers -- Western Political Science Association (2004): 1-12. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Feb. 2010 Sirois, Andre, and Shannon Martin. "United States copyright law and digital sampling: Adding color to a grey area." Information & Communications Technology Law 15.1 (2006): 1-32. E-Journals. EBSCO. Web. 18 Feb. 2010. “An anthropological introduction to YouTube." Dr. Michael Wesch. YouTube. 2008. 19 Feb. 2010. An Anthropological Introduction to Youtube Copyright Criminals. Dir. Benjamin Franzen and Kembrew McLeod . DVD. PBS, 2009. RiP: A remix manifesto. Dir. Brett Gaylor. DVD. Eye Steel Film, 2009. RiP: A Remix Maifesto

Credits : 

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