Posted on 25/05/05
Music's copyright defenders face an unstoppable force
More than a dozen years into the war on sampling, postmodern music is proving impossible to turn off.Copyright crackdowns on the sound collages of hip-hop and electronic music have simply moved unauthorized sampling onto the black market. Commercial acts without major-label cash, such as Canadian producers Sixtoo and Caribou, often now record live musicians rather than digging through records. But creative copyright infringement -- done for love and respect not necessarily money -- is thriving on-line as mash-ups and at street-level on mixtapes.
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