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  • Ian 11:19 am on March 19, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    A Kindred Spirit 

    Lawrence Lessig: I have been doing this for about two years–more than 100 of these gigs. This is about the last one. One more and it’s over for me. So I figured I wanted to write a song to end it. But then I realized I don’t sing and I can’t write music. But I came up with the refrain, at least, right? This captures the point. If you understand this refrain, you’re gonna’ understand everything I want to say to you today. It has four parts:

    • Creativity and innovation always builds on the past.
    • The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it.
    • Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past.
    • Ours is less and less a free society.

    More here…

     

    • IanNo Gravatar 11:27 am on March 19, 2010 Permalink

      One more tease: “Here’s my favorite example, here: 1928, my hero, Walt Disney, created this extraordinary work, the birth of Mickey Mouse in the form of Steamboat Willie. But what you probably don’t recognize about Steamboat Willie and his emergence into Mickey Mouse is that in 1928, Walt Disney, to use the language of the Disney Corporation today, “stole” Willie from Buster Keaton’s “Steamboat Bill.”

  • Plagiarist Gregory 9:38 am on March 9, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Basho, Shiki,… Gojiro? 

    Combining two of Japan’s most beloved cultural exports into something that changes how we look at both. I will never view a Godzilla movie the same way again.

    Godzilla Haiku

     

  • tambuj 12:54 pm on January 22, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Someone Plagiarizes the Plagiarists 

    http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/01/sundance_details_on_the_coming.html

    Seriously? “Promiscuous Stories”? Seven of them? Including “Conversation With the Crab” and “The One About the Green Detective”?

    Someone owes us money.

     

    • Plagiarist GregoryNo Gravatar 8:24 am on January 26, 2010 Permalink

      He said ironically, winking all the while…

    • Plagiarist KatieNo Gravatar 3:15 pm on January 26, 2010 Permalink

      I believe, we actually read about this on their site when putting Promiscuous Stories together. Of course, that was before any of us saw Darkon. They are just taking longer than we are…and you know… making a movie that they are announcing at Sundance and shit.

  • Ian 2:01 pm on January 12, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    The Madness of Crowds and an Internet Delusion

    I was struck by how the essential argument of this essay was focused through the lens of a consumer rather than the creator. Not that Jaron Lanier didn’t write about the creators of media. Just that NYT author, John Tierney spends the bulk of the article dwelling on the sad wasteland of the internet from the perspective of the user rather than the author. This kind of talk reminds of a jaundiced Rupert Murdich telling the kids to get off his lawn and quit stealing from him.

     

    • Plagiarist GregoryNo Gravatar 11:11 am on January 13, 2010 Permalink

      The article is small, but still weirdly, totally wrong, conflating open source projects with piracy with re-mixing and blog culture, which are all radically different. It’s like nine arguments about twenty things all pretending to be the same. This idea that culture stopped with the internet is indefensible, unless you live in some kind of digital cave where you can only watch supercuts and listen to remixes.

      Also, once a gain, a major media source fails to address one of the primary rationales behind music piracy – that many people don’t view it as stealing from the artists, but from the record company. And record companies by now have amassed an enormously nasty record (haha) of abusing and manipulating both artists and consumers. From contracts that steal copyrights from artists to the totally artificial & engineered rise of Limp Bizkit, not even mentioning the amount of just plain crap they try to stuff onto an album with one hit single, major record companies have been breaking every single social contract they can for years in the pursuit of a buck. I’m not excusing music pracy or pretending that it doesn’t affect an artist’s bottom line, but the fact is that the music industry as a whole has acted so badly for so long that the public, especially the music-saavy consumer who would buy the most music, is unmoved by seeing them fail.

  • Plagiarist Lindsay 9:27 am on December 16, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

    Merry Christmas from The Plagiarists and Aretha Franklin 

    aretha-franklin-christmas

    Listen to this! It’s Aretha!

    A big thanks to our pal Mark Spence (BOTC) who shared this link to an Aretha Franklin tribute mix.

    With a week until Christmas, it’s a good time to unwind with a little Aretha and some sweet mixing of some sweet tracks.

    On a personal note, I’m (Lindsay) looking forward to getting some down time over the holidays…which will hopefully lead to days which lend itself to some sort of theatrical work of genius. I shall not speak of the idea for the next project because I’m a little too superstitious for my own good, but will only tell you that it is related to my (and my dad’s) all-time favorite joke:

    A horse walks into a bar.
    The baretender says, “why the long face?”


    you’re welcome.

     

    • Plagiarist GregoryNo Gravatar 3:20 pm on December 16, 2009 Permalink

      Nice. Listening now.

  • Plagiarist Gregory 1:41 pm on October 27, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

    Fuel For Plagiarism 

    Famous Photos + Historical Context = Inspiration Goldmine

     

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