Appropriation and Social Responsibility Notes

Copy-Me, “Early History of Copyright,” highlighting the political interests at play

BioLogical Solutions, “History of Copyright,” highlighting the corporate interests at play

TED talks on intellectual property issues: click here

Music theory YouTuber Adam Neely speaking about various kinds of appropriation from a musical point of view (including Marvin Gaye, Ed Sheeran, their lawsuit together, contrafacts, George Gershwin and “rhythm changes,” and millennium-old compositional techniques)

[Civil disobedience; also Sampling] John Oswald, Dab (1988, with film by Martin Scorsese)—https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhck5dVP9AA

[Civil disobedience; also Sampling] John Oswald, Spring (1988, remix of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring [1913])

[Arrangement] Arrangements of Kraftwerk songs—see Collins Ch. 7: Synth Pop notes

[Constellation of similarities] Robin Thicke, “Blurred Lines” (2013) vs. Marvin Gaye, “Got to Give it Up” (1977)

[Contrafact] “Goodbye, My Coney Island Baby” on Frasier

[Contrafact] “Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight” on The Muppet Show

[Contrafact] “Go Tell Aunt Rhody” in the Resident Evil 7 game soundtrack

[Contrafact] George Gershwin’s “I Got Rhythm” and a playlist contrafacts

[Cover] Nine Inch Nails, “Hurt” (1994)

[Cover] Johnny Cash’s cover of “Hurt” (2002)

[Counterfeit; also Sampling and Parody] Negativland, “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (1991 a capella mix)” (1991)

[Cultural appropriation] Sun Ra, A Joyful Noise (1980)

[Cultural Appropriation] Michael Jackson, “Remember the Time” (1991)

[Cultural appropriation; also Sampling] Brian Eno and David Byrne, “Qu’ran” from My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1981), originally removed at the request of an Islamic organization complaining, “We consider this blasphemy that you put grooves to the chanting of the Holy Book.”

[Cultural appropriation; also Cover] Rednex, “Cotton Eye Joe” (1995)

[Derivative work] Aphex Twin, “ΔM_i⁻¹ = −αΣ_n=1^ND_i[n][Σ_j∈C[i]F_ji[n − 1] + Fext_i[n⁻¹]]” (1999)

[Derivative work] Yuichi Ito, fmiSeq (2012)

[Interpolation] See Sugarhill Gang, “Rapper’s Delight” vs Chic, “Good Times” in Collins Ch. 8: Electronic Dance Music

[Plagiarism] Ed Sheeran, “Photograph” vs. Matt Cardle, “Amazing”

[Quotation] “Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here”

[Quotation] “Texas Fight”

[Quotation; also Contrafact] Arthur Sullivan, “With Cat-Like Tread” from Pirates of Penzance (1879)

[Remix] Kirby Ferguson TED Talk, “Embrace the Remix”

[Sampling; also Derivative work] Australian Associated Press, “Clyde Stubblefield: The World’s Most Sampled Drummer” (2011)

[Bootlegging] The Grateful Dead bootleg recording archive on the Internet Archive—https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead

[Bootlegging] “Official bootleg” recordings for sale on Pearl Jam’s web store—https://pearljam.com/shop/music/bootlegs

[Circumventing copy protection / DMCA] The Register on problems cause by copy protection measures on CDs and ways to circumvent them (therefore, the DMCA theoretically would make such devices as felt tip pens illegal in the USA)— https://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/14/marker_pens_sticky_tape_crack/

[Unlicensed public performance] Remember Jarre, Music for Supermarkets from Collins, Ch. 1: Introduction

[Violating terms of service] Vulfpeck introducing Sleepify (2014)

[AFM recording strike] Charlie Parker (alto saxophone) before the recording strike (Jay McSchann Orchestra performing “St. Louis Mood;” 1942)

[AFM recording strike] Charlie Parker after the recording strike (Dizzy Gillespie & His All Star Quintet, playing “Hot House;” 1945)

[Chamberlin and Mellotron] Comedian Jerry Lewis demonstrating the Chamberlin

[Chamberlin and Mellotron] Paul McCartney of the Beatles demonstrating how the Mellotron was used in “Strawberry Fields Forever”

[Richard Prince] “Untitled (Cowboy): Behind Richard Prince’s Photographs & Appropriation,” TIME (2016)

[Kutiman] Kutman, Thru You (2009)—http://thru-you.com/

[The Grey Album] Danger Mouse, “Encore” video made to publicize The Grey Album (2004)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFd1QvNPKmI&t=1m18s

[“All You Need is Love”] Glenn Miller’s 1939 arrangement of “In the Mood”

[“All You Need is Love”] Wingy Manone, “Tar Paper Stomp” (1930)

[“All You Need is Love”] Fletcher Henderson, “Hot and Anxious” (1931)

[“All You Need is Love”] Beatles cover band, reproducing George Martin’s arrangement of “All You Need is Love”

[Negativland] Negativland, “Long Distance Dedications” featuring U2’s recording and and Casey Kasem outtakes

[Negativland] Negativland, “Crosley Bendix Discusses the Copyright Act”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcKEzGFfOxE

[“Tom’s Diner”] Suzanne Vega, “Tom’s Diner” original version (1987)

[“Tom’s Diner”] Suzanne Vega, “Tom’s Diner” DNA remix (1990)

[Caustic Window] Caustic Window (Richard D. James, a.k.a. Aphex Twin), “Phlaps” (1994)

[Amen break] The Winstons, “Amen, Brother” (1969) and songs that sampled it (listen from 1:18)—http://www.whosampled.com/The-Winstons/Amen,-Brother/

[Amen break] Nate Harrison, Can I get an Amen? (2004) presented as an art installation

[Happy Birthday] PBS Idea Channel, “Should ‘Happy Birthday’ be Protected by Copyright?” (2012)

[Happy Birthday] Fox Business news on intellectual property issues surrounding “Happy Birthday to You,” including ways others can make money similarly (without mentioning that you could write music yourself)