Re: [rumori] Music and Theft Conference, March 30 at Duke


From: Greg Johnson (fezdakATtriad.rr.com)
Date: Sat Mar 02 2002 - 11:11:29 PST


I live 20 miles from this. I will attend, & try to take notes/minidisc the
lectures.

--Greg
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steev Hise" <steevATdetritus.net>
To: <rumoriATdetritus.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 10:47 AM
Subject: [rumori] Music and Theft Conference, March 30 at Duke

>
> received this announcement recently. I wish I had known about it
> earlier, i might have just found it to be enough of an excuse to
> fly to North Carolina. But maybe some of you who are closer can
> go. Anyone who does, be sure to report back here on it....
>
> smh
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> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 09:38:51 -0800
> From: kellerATlaw.duke.edu
> To: infoATdetritus.net
> Subject: ummm...
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> Dear detritus folks-
>
> I'm running a conference on music sampling, collage-format
> expression, and the law, to be held on March 30 in Durham NC at
> Duke Law School. There will be any number of lawyers, DJs,
> musicians, professors, and cultural theorists. I would dearly
> love to pack the audience with detritus-minded folks. And I think
> that those same folks would really enjoy the conference. Can I
> ask you to pass this announcement on to rumori and to any other
> interested persons/lists you know of? I'm glad to answer any
> questions, Daphne Keller / kellerATlaw.duke.edu / 919-613-7270
>
> Thanks so much and I hope to see you there!!
>
> Daphne
>
> CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
>
> Music and Theft: Sampling, Technology, and the Law
> A Conference at Duke Law School
> Room 3043
> 1:00 PM Saturday, March 30
> http://www.law.duke.edu/musicandtheft/
> admission is free
>
> Funded by grants from the Ford Foundation and the Center for the Public
Domain
>
> CONFERENCE OVERVIEW
>
> Recording devices, and digital technologies in particular, turn prior
recorded sound into the raw material for new work. Samplers have replaced
electric guitars as tools of the trade for many musicians; remixes and sonic
collage are musical staples from the Top 40 to obscure electronica and
hip-hop.
>
> But the law has not looked kindly upon unauthorized sampling. In the first
sampling-based copyright infringement case, the court's opinion began with
scripture - "Thou shalt not steal" - and ended with a referral for criminal
prosecution.
>
> Is recorded sound simply private property, and is its re-use simply theft?
Or is recorded sound the raw material of creative expression, a resource
without which artists' voices would be stifled? Sampling raises copyright
law's characteristic tensions: the sound recording is both private property,
enabling an author or musician to get paid for her work, and an element of
communication and culture. But the fair use doctrine, statutory compulsory
licensing, and the First Amendment, which may permit unauthorized creative
re-use of copyrighted materials in other cases, have never been brought to
bear on sampling. The only clearly legal sample is an authorized sample.
>
> The Music and Theft conference will bring together artists and experts on
the technological foundations and the artistic and cultural implications of
sampling, along with experts on copyright law and licensing arrangements, to
discuss ways in which the law does and should affect sample-based music.
>
> SCHEDULE
>
> First Panel: The Technology
> Room 3043
>
> Musicians on this panel will demonstrate the digital manipulation of
preexisting recordings and MIDI files and discuss the impact of digital
technology on music production and music theory. An experienced music
attorney will discuss the legal consequences of the particular practices
demonstrated by the musicians, as well as the law's overall responses to
digital music.
>
> Panelists: Anthony Kelley, Scott Lindroth, Tim Mandelbaum
> Moderator: James Boyle
>
> Second Panel: The Culture
> Room 3043
>
> This panel will explore the expressive and cultural significance of
sampling. Panelists from diverse academic and practical backgrounds will
bring to bear the perspectives of cultural theory, music history, music
production, legal theory, and legal practice.
>
> Panelists: Dick Hebdige, Daphne Keller, Fred Koenigsburg, Paul Miller aka
DJ Spooky, David Sanjek
> Moderator: David Lange
>
> Reception
> Burdman Lounge
>
>
>
> PARTICIPANTS
>
> James Boyle
> Dick Hebdige
> Daphne Keller
> Anthony Kelley
> Fred Koenigsburg
> David Lange
> Scott Lindroth
> Tim Mandelbaum
> David Sanjek
> DJ Spooky
>
>
>
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