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Response October 8, 2009

Response to RIP and History if the Amen Break

Both videos were pretty great. I love the section at the end of the Amen Break when the narrator talks about how impossible it is to copyright sounds with companies like Zero G protecting property they stole or which they generated later and separately from older versions. I like the idea that being “free to borrow and build upon the past is culturally richer”. I liked RIP a lot. The video was so engaging and well edited. I especially liked references to Dada which I found potent not only because Dada represented early “remixes” of pasted images, but also vividly points out the senselessness of government and law. I think the governments attempts to regulate music copyright is a lot like babbling incoherently. The charges are unfair, even ridiculous, and created by people who clearly misunderstand my generation. I really  think that more groups should pursue ending the “fear of copyright” which has been ineffective and really harmful.