Whose idea or creation is it?
And what can someone else do with it?
So the fight for intellectual property. And that extends far beyond the boundaries of music or art. Does knowledge or culture not always build on everything that has been done before anyway? And it wasn't always like that either? A striking example of music: The Rolling Stones' hit The Last Time was based on This May Be The Last Time by The Staple Singers
, Which, by the way, also received treatment from a project by the former manager of The Stones, The Andrew Loog Oldham Orchestra? And then The Verve then decided to sample The Stones again for Bittersweet Symphony.
After Jagger and Richards successfully claimed the rights to that song, they sold it to sports brand Nike for a commercial.
RIP!: A Remix Manifesto
A war between “copyright,” the traditionalists who want to protect old-fashioned copyright at all costs and just keep using it as a cash cow, and the copyleft, the generation that grew up with the Internet, essentially thinks everything belongs to everyone and swears by samples, mashups, covers, quotes and all other applications that guarantee the free exchange of ideas.
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