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Saturday, February 20, 2010

Fan Wars: Copyright vs. Mash-ups and Fan Fiction Many mash-up artists seem unaware that their work implicates any rights at all, and copyright owners may be reluctant to alienate fans with copyright restrictions. Artists such as Girl Talk remain outspoken against copyright restrictions on mash-up culture. Individual copyright owners, such as the owners of Star [...]

Filed in Uncategorized | Also tagged criminal justice, fan art, girl talk, mashups, star wars | Comments (0)

The case for sampling, and copyleft generally

Monday, February 8, 2010

My friend Adam, a non-musician but devoted music fan, asked me why sampling is good. He’s used to hearing me defend it from the idea that it’s bad, but he’d never heard a positive argument for it. In case you’ve ever asked the same question, here’s my answer.

Filed in computers, music | Also tagged beyonce, book, brian eno, chi-lites, disney, evolution, fan art, fans, funky drummer, grateful dead, intellectual property, janet jackson, joni mitchell, kickstarter, lil wayne, manu dibango, memes, michael jackson, midi, monkeysphere, music, public domain, remixes, sampling, songwriting, swv | Comments (2)

Copyright Criminals

Monday, January 25, 2010

This PBS Independent Lens documentary on sampling culture is a good one, and you can watch the whole thing on Youtube. Their resources and links page includes my Biz Markie blog post. Thanks Beautiful Decay for posting the videos. Part one:

Filed in movies, music, software, tv | Also tagged a tribe called quest, audio editing, beastie boys, biz markie, book, clyde stubblefield, computers, dance, dj, eighties, george clinton, hip-hop, improvisation, james brown, jeff chang, looping, mashups, memes, michael jackson, music, pro tools, public enemy, recording, remixes, rock, sampling | Comments (1)

Apache makes you go hmmm

Sunday, January 17, 2010

DJ Kool Herc likes to say that The Incredible Bongo Band’s version of “Apache” is the national anthem of hip-hop. Its famous drum and percussion break reliably put bodies on the dance floor through hip-hop’s prehistory and has been sampled untold numbers of times. Here’s the break: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] On [...]

Filed in music | Also tagged apache, book, breakdancing, dance, dna, double dee and steinski, drum n bass, drumming, evolution, funk, goldie, grandmaster flash, hip-hop, history, kool herc, mashups, memes, missy elliot, nas, pop, questlove, roots, sampling, seventies | Comments (0)

Open-source music

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Sample-based music isn’t stealing. It’s valuable and important. It shows the way toward a future for recorded music that’s more in continuity with music’s past. Recordings are cool and everything, but they encourage passivity. If I buy a recording, I can listen to it or dance to it, both fine activities, but what if I [...]

Filed in music, software | Also tagged amazing grace, blues, book, folk, google, improvisation, internet, jazz, kanye west, learning, memes, music, music theory, opensource, remixes, sampling, transcribing | Comments (1)

Coltrane was an analog remixer

Saturday, November 28, 2009

The current fetish for originality in music is partially an outgrowth of copyright law. If you write your own songs, you can make more money from the publishing rights in addition to your album sales. The influence of Bob Dylan and the Beatles further created the expectation that popular musicians would mostly be writing their [...]

Filed in autobio, computers, music | Also tagged arrangement, big band, book, chet baker, coltrane, count basie, duke ellington, frank sinatra, harmony, improvisation, jay-z, jazz, lego, looping, memes, miles davis, modules, music, music theory, my favorite things, originality, reharmonization, remixes, sampling, swing, symmetry, the sound of music | Comments (0)

Bitter Sweet Symphony

Monday, November 23, 2009

One of the biggest copyright failures of copyright law ever is the The Verve song “Bitter Sweet Symphony.” The distinctive string sample comes from an orchestral arrangement of “The Last Time” by The Rolling Stones. Doesn’t sound much like the Verve, does it? The two bands do share a taste in the I – flat [...]

Filed in autobio, music | Also tagged allen klein, andrew oldham, bitter sweet symphony, fail, hip-hop, james brown, law, originality, pop, remixes, revival revival, richard ashcroft, rock, rolling stones, sampling, staples singers, the verve, uk | Comments (1)

Who owns the Michael Jackson makossa chant?

Friday, September 18, 2009

My favorite Michael Jackson song is “Wanna Be Startin’ Something.” This post is part of what’s turning into a series on it. The previous post is about the song as fan art, and some of the fan art that it’s inspired, from bootleg Youtube videos to licensed remixes. This one is about who owns the [...]

Filed in music | Also tagged bmg, book, bruce swedian, manu dibango, memes, michael jackson, ownership, quincy jones, recording, remixes, rights, rihanna, sampling, sony, soul makossa, thriller | Comments (1)

Biz Markie gets the copyright smackdown

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Biz Markie. Who doesn’t love him? Our broken intellectual property system, that’s who.

Filed in music | Also tagged biz markie, book, christianity, criminal justice, fail, gilbert o'sullivan, hip-hop, looping, memes, music, remixes, sampling | Comments (0)

Bad meaning good

Monday, June 15, 2009

“Peter Piper” is the leadoff track on Raising Hell, the third album by Run-DMC. It was their big commercial and critical breakthrough. My stepbrother Dan had it on cassette and it pretty much defined the sound of my sixth and seventh grade experience.

Filed in music | Also tagged bob james, eighties, hip-hop, jazz, looping, memes, music, nursery rhymes, paul simon, run-dmc, sampling, turntablism | Comments (0)

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