Wednesday, July 06, 2005
Rove, centre, when he isn't chasing serious tail or revealing CIA secrets
Rovegate?
Two articles (one by David Corn of the Nation and the other by Ted Rall) ask questions about what exactly Karl Rove, Bush's chief strategist in the 2000 Election, has been up to...
Is Rove It? (and by 'it' David Corn means is Karl Rove a big old gossip queen, revealing CIA agent's identities and putting their lives in danger?)
Karl Rove : Worse than Osama Bin Laden (I think the title is self-explanatory)
Punks Not Dunks Pt IV
go to jail, go directly to lame-art jail
There's a great interview in this week's Onion with Negativland. The article focuses on the principles of fair use :
It's particularly interesting given Nike's recent 'Major Threat' campaign that caused some friction between Nike and Dischord.
Read the interview here.
go to jail, go directly to lame-art jail
There's a great interview in this week's Onion with Negativland. The article focuses on the principles of fair use :
if you want to completely control your creative work, you should just keep it in your house, and don't let it out to the rest of the world. If you're going to put it out there into what I think is the public domain, you don't get total control anymore. That's not part of the deal. That's not part of having a healthy culture. It's really too bad when I see musicians and artists espousing these ideas of total control and ownership of their work. I just think, "God, you sound like a lawyer." It's like they've internalized this corporate thinking that's floating around out there in the ether. They don't sound like artists at all
It's particularly interesting given Nike's recent 'Major Threat' campaign that caused some friction between Nike and Dischord.
Read the interview here.
there might be someone who decides to take an entire Negativland track, except for the last three seconds, and give it a new name and say it's theirs. I guess they could do that if they want. But it's kind of lame. [Laughs.] I sort of look at someone like Vanilla Ice with "Ice Ice Baby," or MC Hammer with "U Can't Touch This," and I think those were very unimaginative uses of someone else's riff. But the punishment should not be that they get sued for millions of dollars, the punishment should be that they just get consigned to "lame-art jail." [Laughs.]
