Steal this music : how intellectual property law affects musical creativity / Joanna Demers

• Is music property? Under what circumstances can music be stolen? Such questions lie at the heart of Demers's look at how overzealous intellectual property (IP) litigation both stifles and stimulates musical creativity. A musicologist, industry consultant, and musician, Demers dissects works that have brought IP issues into the mainstream culture, such as DJ Danger Mouse's Grey Album and Mike Batt's homage-gone-wrong to John Cage's silent composition 4'33. Demers also discusses such artists as Ice Cube, DJ Spooky, and John Oswald, whose creativity is sparked by their defiant circumvention of licensing and copyright issues. Demers is concerned about the fate of transformative appropriation - the creative process by which artists and composers borrow from, and respond to, other musical works. In the United States, only two elements of music are eligible for copyright protection: the master recording and the composition (lyrics and melody) itself. Harmony, rhythm, timbre, and other qualities that make a piece distinctive are virtually unregulated. 

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Upphovsrätt för musik  -- Förenta Staterna (sao)

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346.730482 (DDC)

Oeaea (kssb/8)