[Infowarrior] - PBS Show: Copyright Criminals

[Richard Forno]

January 19 at 10 PM

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COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS
by Benjamin Franzen and Kembrew McLeod

Can you own a sound? As hip-hop rose from the streets of New York to  
become a multibillion-dollar industry, artists such as Public Enemy  
and De La Soul began reusing parts of previously recorded music for  
their songs. But when record company lawyers got involved everything  
changed. Years before people started downloading and remixing music,  
hip-hop sampling sparked a debate about copyright, creativity and  
technological change that still rages today.

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