nothing new under the sun

"She [reflected] on how many, many sentences have been worn smooth with use, rendered meaningless by centuries of repetition." --Spider Robinson, "Melancholy Elephants"

This week we're talking about a nexus of ideas: intellectual property, plagiarism, artistic creation, remixing, and sampling.

Here are discussion links:

--Spider Robinson (author of "Melancholy Elephants") - Wikipedia entry
--Boing Boing: Stop sketching, little girl -- those paintings are copyrighted!
--Boing Boing: Alien v Predator script saved by Internet pirates
--William S. Burroughs Les Voleurs
--william s. burroughs cutup machine
--U.S. Copyright Office
--U.S. Copyright Information Circular on Derivative Works
--Musical Borrowing Bibliography
--The History of Sampling
--Wired 13.07: God's Little Toys
--St. Jerome: Composing? Copying? Both?
--Negativland: Intellectual Property Issues
--DJ Dangermouse - The Grey Album: google at your own risk ;-)
--A Guide to the Visual Artists Rights Act

--Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory

Sherrie Levine:
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