Topic: Bastard pop - on May 4, 2004 at 8:47:00 PM CEST
Mashup Artists Face the Music
Followup on the Bowie/Audi Contest
When David Bowie issued a recent call for fans to enter a contest in which the best meshing of two Bowie songs into a single track would win its creator a new sports car, it brought a favorite art form of the DJ world into a very mainstream light.
"One thing to note about David Bowie's contest is he's saying, 'You can use different pieces of my songs,' which he has the copyrights to," says Reville. "He's also saying what you make, he also owns the copyright on, so he's not really opening his stuff up freely for people to remix. He's just saying, 'You can do something for this contest and we'll own it,' and that's a really different approach from DJs and people doing mashups."
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