[ccccip] DJ challenges copyright by asserting Fair Use for his re-mixes

[Les Perelman]

Sorry for posting to the list.

Les

Les Perelman wrote:
> Hey Nick,
>
> Want to come over to MIT during the next two weeks?  After that, I will 
> be engulfed.
>
> Les
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> Nick Carbone wrote:
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>> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/07/arts/music/07girl.html
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>> Excerpt from the article:
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>> Girl Talk, whose real name is Gregg Gillis, makes danceable musical
>> collages out of short clips from other people's songs; there are more
>> than 300 samples on "Feed the Animals," the album he released online at
>> illegalart.net in June. He doesn't get the permission of the composers
>> to use these samples, as United States copyright law mostly requires,
>> because he maintains that the brief snippets he works with are covered
>> by copyright law's "fair use" principle (and perhaps because doing so
>> would be prohibitively expensive).
>>
>> Girl Talk's rising profile has put him at the forefront of a group of
>> musicians who are challenging the traditional restrictions of copyright
>> law along with the usual role of samples in pop music.
>>
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>> Nick Carbone, Director of New Media
>> Bedford/St. Martin's
>> 75 Arlington St.
>> Boston, MA 02117
>> ncarbone at bedfordstmartins dot com
>> 617.275.1872
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