USD will host a preview screening of the documentary Copyright Criminals, which airs nationally in January of 2010. It screens at 7pm tomorrow night (Wednesday) in UC Forum A.
“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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