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Geoff Taylor - Life's Liver Started conversation Jul 25, 2001
Why do you think that satire breaches copyright?
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aarch Posted Aug 5, 2001
Dear Ploppy,
Thanks for your question. I wasn't really saying that I think that satire infringes copyright. There are artists out there who have a lot of fun bursting ego-bubbles (V/Vm etc) or make political/social points (Tape Beatles etc) by wholesale sampling/manipulating of copyrighted material. The thing I like is that unlike Paul Merton or David Letterman being smart on TV, the targets see themselves as being harmed more in a financial sense than morally or intellectually.
The copyright thing has been much in evidence for years - The JAMMs first LP being withdrawn and destroyed, Metallica V Napster, right to this year when the Avalanches album has several hundred words of legal screed devoted to sample clearance (and the clearance took longer than the album did to make).
I don't really have any answers to any of these problems - but I do always get a frisson of excitement when a tiny little artist takes on AOL-Time-Warner or any other Corp.
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