A highly stylised film on the topic of copyright law vs free culture told through the lens of the music of Girl Talk, who constructs songs purely by sampling and combining songs together into mammoth new productions.
Notes:
Girl Talk- We will look back at people having a problem with collaging two songs together as silly
Equivalent to taking the notes from a Beatles song, rearranging them, putting it through a new pedal and calling it your own song.
Muddy Waters - copied to make - Led Zeppelin Whle Lot of Love
This May Be The Last Time (The Staple Singers) came from an old traditional blues song -> The Last Time (Rolling Stones) -> The Last Time (instrumental) (Mike Oldfield) -> Bittersweet Symphony (The Verve)
Happy Birthday - 1851 but dtill not in the public domain, owned by Warner Chapel
Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
21 songs sampled in 3 mins
4 corporations - 21k per song each = $210,000
+ labels = $262,500
x12 = $4m to clear his album
If any of the 85 corporations involved don't like mashups, they could pull the plug
The printing press could spread ideas around the world
Statute of Anne - 14 Years
Keep inventing better copy machines
Napster offered $1bn for a licence to allow its users to continue sharing - Major labels said no.
Cory Doctorow - In 18 months, we had built the greatest library in history.
50 million Napster users - enough to change the outcome of an election
Chuck D - The power goes back to the people
C. Doctorow - We all pretend we're not copyright criminals, like masterbation in Victorian times.
Lessig - We can't make our kids passive, we can only make them pirates.
So extreme to apply this to developing nations
FAIR USE - Quoting in your essay. Use it to make your argument.
Should have the same right with film.
No way the labels will allow use of their music in something that criticises them.
It is literacy for a new generation.
People participate in the creation and recreation of their culture
Walt Disney Creativity - Updating the public domain
Air Pirates - Mouse Liberation front
Very important Babies / Disney
Extended c terms
Created before 1923
If you want to be a mashup artist like Walt Disney, you have to work outside the law.
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