I Collage, Therefore I Am: An Introduction to Cutting Across Media / Kembrew McLeod and Rudolf Kuenzli  1

Digital Mana: On the Source of the Infinite Proliferation of Mutant Copies on Contemporary Culture / Marcus Boon  24

Copyrights and Copywrongs: An Interview with Siva Vaidhyanathan / Carrie McLaren  38

Das Plagiierenwerk: Convolute Uii / David Tetzlaff  51

PhotoStatic Magazine and the Rise of the Casual Publisher / Lloyd Dunn  57

Plagiarism®174; 101: An Appropriated Oral History of the Tape-beatles / Kembrew McLeod  76

Ambiguity and Theft / Joshua Clover  84

Where Does Sad News Come From? / Douglas Kahn  94

Excerpts from "Two Relationships to a Cultural Public Domain" / Negativland  117

Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Lawsuit: William S. Burroughs, DJ Danger Mouse, and the Politics of Grey Tuesday / Davis Schneiderman  132

How Copyright Law Changed Hip-Hop: An Interview with Public Enemy's Chuck D and Hank Shocklee / Kembrew McLeod  152

Hip-Hop Meets the Avant-Garde: A Cease and Desist Letter from Attorneys Representing Philip Glass / Warner Special Products  158

Getting Snippety / Philo T. Farnsworth  160

Crashing the Spectacle: A Forgotten History of Digital Sampling, Infringement, Copyright Liberation, and the End of Recorded Music / Kembrew McLeod  164

Billboard Liberation: A Photo Essay / Craig Baldwin  178

On the Seamlessly Nomadic Future of Collage / Pierre Joris  185

Cultural Sampling and Social Critique: The Collage Aesthetic of Chris Ofili / Lorraine Morales Cox  199

Remixing Cultures: Bartók and Kodály in the Age of Indigenous Cultural Rights / Gábor Vályi  219

A Day to Sing: Creativity, Diversity, and Freedom of Expression in the Network Society / Jeff Chang  237

Visualizing Copyright, Seeing Hegemony: Toward a Meta-Critique of Intellectual Property / Eva Hemmungs Wirtén  252

Collage as Practice and Metaphor in Popular Culture / David Banash  264

Assassination Weapons: The Visual Culture of New Wave Science Fiction / Rob Latham  276

Free Culture: A Conversation with Jonathan Lethem / Kembrew McLeod  290

The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism / Jonathan Lethem  298

Bibliography  327

Contributors  341

Index  345

Kembrew McLeod

Rudolf Kuenzli

Marcus Boon

Carrie McLaren

David Tetzlaff

Lloyd Dunn

Joshua Clover

Douglas Kahn

Davis Schneiderman

Philo T. Farnsworth

Craig Baldwin

Pierre Joris

Lorraine Morales Cox

Gabor Valyi

Jeff Chang

Eva Hemmungs Wirten

David Banash

Rob Latham

Jonathan Lethem

“Spanning media from visual art to popular music, literature to culture jamming, this series of essays challenges the litigious environment in which copyright is used as a blunt weapon to prevent reinvention of existing works and the transformative process of reuse to inform the creative cycle of ideas. . . . Advanced undergraduates through faculty in art, art history, media studies, film, literature and music will appreciate the interdisciplinary treatment of collage.”—Cara List, ARLIS/NA Reviews

“I believe this is an important book, specifically because the issues discussed affect much of our future artistic creations; as mentioned this has profound social and cultural ramifications. As such, this book should be at minimum included as a recommended text in a variety of applicable tertiary education courses. The stakes are too high to ignore the erosion of artistic freedom brought about by ignorant and greed driven application of copyright law.”—Rob Harle, Leonardo

“Where the most prominent works on the subject tend to dwell on digital’s infinite capacity to reproduce and share itself freely and its current kowtowing to corporate rights management, this book begins by situating appropriation art and collage in the earlier recesses of the twentieth century with Walter Benjamin, the Surrealists, and Dada. Along the way, it touches upon zine culture, audiotape collage, street art, and new wave science fiction; it critiques the international outflows of copyright-subject culture and then it critiques the debate itself.”—Allie Curry, Rain Taxi

“Reflecting both McLeod’s spirited cultural critique and Kuenzli’s interdisciplinary approach to the arts, Cutting Across Media explores diverse forms of collage and appropriation in music, painting, publishing, spoken broadcasts, poetry, and narrative. In this collage of essays, readers are challenged to rethink notions of intellectual property and to consider the complex political and cultural issues that accompany collage and appropriation aesthetics.”—Christine Masters Jach, American Book Review

“What separates this volume from other contemporary works around sampling and intellectual property law is that research in this area rarely attempts to
marry aesthetic and political concerns so overtly. . . . [A]n edited collection that successfully manages to explore the political and artistic imperatives that inform the practice of collage and appropriation.”—James Meese, Media International Australia

“Prioritising usage over rights lies, ironically, at the heart of capitalism itself- which adds to the current contradictions of perceived digital freedom. McLeod and Kuenzli are more than aware of this, adding that those lamenting the expansion of intellectual property often ‘sound like Libertarian cowboys’ On the whole, and to its credit, this volume gives voice to both sides. Participations range from, to name just a few, Craig Baldwin’s catalogue of ‘billboard liberation’ activities to McLeods’s essays on the KLF (remember the K foundation? Burning £1m and giving Rachel Whiteread the ‘Worst Artist Award’ at her receipt of the Turner Prize and other anarcho-pop manifestations) to David Schneiderman on the cut-ups of William Burroughs and DJ Danger Mouse’s Grey Album.”—David Ryan, Art Monthly

“[An] absorbing collection of essays, interviews, and experiments in form. . . . The 24 entries explore appropriation, interventionist collage, and copyright issues from a variety of perspectives (not too many of them female, though) and in a wide range of art forms from music to film to painting to photocopied ’zines to altered billboards.”—Craig Bunch, Cassone

“Cutting across Media is a very welcome addition to the evolving discourse on intellectual property issues in the arts. Its editors Kembrew McLeod and Rudolf Kuenzli, the former a respected commentator on intellectual property issues, the latter director of the International Dada Archive, have found a good balance between analysis of well-established collage techniques and the exploration of new contexts for theories of appropriation. The resulting anthology presents an extensive cross-section of critical perspectives on the intersection between creative expression and intellectual property law.”—Martin Zeilinger, Media, Culture & Society

“Cutting Across Media fills important gaps in our understanding of the real, lived practices of remix and the legal strategies that surround and inform these practices. Students new to the topic and seasoned scholars alike may find something of value here.”—Andrew Famiglietti, Popular Music and Society

“Spanning media from visual art to popular music, literature to culture jamming, this series of essays challenges the litigious environment in which copyright is used as a blunt weapon to prevent reinvention of existing works and the transformative process of reuse to inform the creative cycle of ideas. . . . Advanced undergraduates through faculty in art, art history, media studies, film, literature and music will appreciate the interdisciplinary treatment of collage.”—Cara List, ARLIS/NA Reviews

“I believe this is an important book, specifically because the issues discussed affect much of our future artistic creations; as mentioned this has profound social and cultural ramifications. As such, this book should be at minimum included as a recommended text in a variety of applicable tertiary education courses. The stakes are too high to ignore the erosion of artistic freedom brought about by ignorant and greed driven application of copyright law.”—Rob Harle, Leonardo

“Where the most prominent works on the subject tend to dwell on digital’s infinite capacity to reproduce and share itself freely and its current kowtowing to corporate rights management, this book begins by situating appropriation art and collage in the earlier recesses of the twentieth century with Walter Benjamin, the Surrealists, and Dada. Along the way, it touches upon zine culture, audiotape collage, street art, and new wave science fiction; it critiques the international outflows of copyright-subject culture and then it critiques the debate itself.”—Allie Curry, Rain Taxi

“Reflecting both McLeod’s spirited cultural critique and Kuenzli’s interdisciplinary approach to the arts, Cutting Across Media explores diverse forms of collage and appropriation in music, painting, publishing, spoken broadcasts, poetry, and narrative. In this collage of essays, readers are challenged to rethink notions of intellectual property and to consider the complex political and cultural issues that accompany collage and appropriation aesthetics.”—Christine Masters Jach, American Book Review

“What separates this volume from other contemporary works around sampling and intellectual property law is that research in this area rarely attempts to
marry aesthetic and political concerns so overtly. . . . [A]n edited collection that successfully manages to explore the political and artistic imperatives that inform the practice of collage and appropriation.”—James Meese, Media International Australia

“Prioritising usage over rights lies, ironically, at the heart of capitalism itself- which adds to the current contradictions of perceived digital freedom. McLeod and Kuenzli are more than aware of this, adding that those lamenting the expansion of intellectual property often ‘sound like Libertarian cowboys’ On the whole, and to its credit, this volume gives voice to both sides. Participations range from, to name just a few, Craig Baldwin’s catalogue of ‘billboard liberation’ activities to McLeods’s essays on the KLF (remember the K foundation? Burning £1m and giving Rachel Whiteread the ‘Worst Artist Award’ at her receipt of the Turner Prize and other anarcho-pop manifestations) to David Schneiderman on the cut-ups of William Burroughs and DJ Danger Mouse’s Grey Album.”—David Ryan, Art Monthly

“[An] absorbing collection of essays, interviews, and experiments in form. . . . The 24 entries explore appropriation, interventionist collage, and copyright issues from a variety of perspectives (not too many of them female, though) and in a wide range of art forms from music to film to painting to photocopied ’zines to altered billboards.”—Craig Bunch, Cassone

“Cutting across Media is a very welcome addition to the evolving discourse on intellectual property issues in the arts. Its editors Kembrew McLeod and Rudolf Kuenzli, the former a respected commentator on intellectual property issues, the latter director of the International Dada Archive, have found a good balance between analysis of well-established collage techniques and the exploration of new contexts for theories of appropriation. The resulting anthology presents an extensive cross-section of critical perspectives on the intersection between creative expression and intellectual property law.”—Martin Zeilinger, Media, Culture & Society

“Cutting Across Media fills important gaps in our understanding of the real, lived practices of remix and the legal strategies that surround and inform these practices. Students new to the topic and seasoned scholars alike may find something of value here.”—Andrew Famiglietti, Popular Music and Society

“Communication is much like a work of art—it is a process of copying, repeating and varying what we hear. There is no originator or owner of that which shapes our very being, and Cutting Across Media demonstrates how placing restrictions on creative commentary can stifle our cultural development.”—Vicki Bennett, aka People Like Us

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