Wednesday, 10. October 2007
Topic: MUSIK - on October 10, 2007 at 10:12:00 AM CEST
Negativland Kicks Out the Culture Jams With Favorite Things
It's a short ride from copyfight infamy to mashup immortality.
Take audiovisual collagists and merry pranksters Negativland, who in 1991 famously sampled U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" and mashed it with radio host Casey Kasem's rants about the band, long before YouTube was a bright idea in Chad Hurley's head.
The resulting high-profile legal fight resonates at a time when a song sharer gets hammered with a $222,000 fine and record execs claim that ripping a song amounts to theft.
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