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Clicking through the register of my new bloglines<\/a>
\naccount, I found this bit from Wired News called "Facing
\nthe Copyright Rap."<\/a>  A triumvirate of judges in Cincinnati put
\ntheir noggins together–clunk!–and ruled that sampling is a violation of
\ncopyright law.  Best part–even if the snippets are unidentifiable <\/i>as
\na re-appropriation of another’s protected works. <\/p>\n

"If you cannot pirate the whole sound recording, can you ‘lift’ or
\n ‘sample’ something less than the whole? Our answer to that question is in the
\n negative," the court said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

"In the negative"?:  Does that mean ‘no’?  Or must we
\nfind different ways to say ‘no’ because it’s been used before in a song or two?
\n(Aside: Simon Frith showed us the voice<\/i> is an instrument, too, right?)<\/p>\n

And I oughta stop here because it’s too easy to fisk on the statement from the Cincy judges and
\nbecause I should be reading Eagleton’s book on culture right about now. But it’s
\na problematic ruling for a whole heap of reasons, not the least of which–in my
\nworld–is a workshop I’m arranging on the remix essay later this semester. 
\nEspecially if we want to put<\/i> students’ work on the web, and especially if
\nwe want their work to re-appropriate copyrighted material in <\/i>the public sphere,
\nhow should we distinguish between the tried and true rules about attribution
\nwhen, as this ruling would have us accept, sampling need "not rise to the
\nlevel of legally cognizable appropriation" for it to violate
\ncopyright.  As kindling to the (out)rageous plagiarism debate, particularly
\nas we venture away from the paper-bound essay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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