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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
We’ve lost twenty years of cool af hip hop samples, and wild mash-ups because copyright laws destroy free expression.
Just because you make a sound you own it? That’s ridiculous. No one should be able to own a series of sound vibrations.
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I've likely mentioned it before, but Kirby Ferguson produced a fantastic 4-part miniseries called
Everything Is A Remix outlining the fundamentals of that argument.
Part 1 explores music (particularly classic rock borrowing heavily from the blues). Part 2 explores film (with a focus on George Lucas and Tarantino as mash-up artists). Part 3 covers inventions and modern computing. And the final segment explores the system, itself.
Ferguson produced an HD remastered version of all four segments combined into a 30-minute film on YouTube in 2015.
There is also a minisode examining shot-for-shot origins of cinematic inspirations for The Matrix.
If you haven't seen them before, he does a great job of covering The Three Key Steps to Creativity: Copy, Transform, and Combine and how no ideas are born in a vacuum.