Not that I have anything shoe salesmen, but let me tell you See, I was born with a in my heart, not a shoe.
Hello, records. If it ain't a Dead-Dog, it ain't barking. How can I ya?
There are fifty-million blank cassettes a year in this country, and me, they're not being used for dictation. being used to copy records. There is no expemption of copyright for home taping, period, without the of the owner.
What's going on What comes out of the is different what goes in.
The new tech, the new tech, the new technology.
The most important things about the of tape is it changed music from being an event in time, being an event in space.
The between a copy and an original ...into being an in space.
I think it notions we have about the between a copy and an original
You can edit it, the songs. And of course then when played back, You're dealing in the sense In the same you're dealing with any plastic material And ofcourse, then when it's back, it once again becomes an in time.
But during that (I suppose) But that intrum period, where it's a spacial thing, you can do lots of things it. of things that you never had available Prior to -, to -, Prior to -, The of tape.
It took while (seeing) before anybody seeing the possibilities of seeing the possibilities of
What's the power of information into our own heads? That the old boundaries between what was my And was yours become confused.
Only a
And of making their own sounds (Anything you can do I can do I can do anything you)
a sample
Old technologies get confused new ones
I find this confusing between and copy, and all the new technology use digital
A sound... you to record something, You And put it into own music So you press a certain key, You A sound from else's recording
(No you Yes we can No you Yes we can No you Yes we can! Yes we can!)
And put it in Or it up A song... A song... A song... somebody else's recording (Ownership...) You a song And put it into own music. else's recording. A sound from else.
is redefined Destabilizes the system of distribution.
By the way, I don't know how times I've made the refrence to the U.S. Copyright Law
?'s copyright law was in 1924. It was ammended in 1988. But the roots of the law 18th century
Just to put it in context, pre-radio, really, it's pre-commercial-radio, pre-television, it's pre-computer, it's geared, ah... It's pre-modern records, pre-compact-disk. It's pre-almost everything we've come to at in life as communicating information. One of the major criticizems of a legal stuctured in this way is that it does bring law into disrespect, and it bring law generally into disrespect. If one has a system makes activities wrong in the eyes of the law, and yet everybody is doing it - then you to wonder - is law worthy of respect?
(You something?) Everything about it is (You something?) the traffic will allow (The who were listening) No-way can you get happy feeling (You and daughter) you are stealing (You don't any of this. Just look around. Just ask around. Just see what using tapes for. you are stealing... No, I'm not a fan of that of thing. (The knows what's happening. Look, oh)
I still stolen I feel stolen I still feel goods are stolen goods, go on with the stealing... But I really comment on it, 'cause I keep like, but... but... but... As long as you accept stolem As long as you accept an art like stolen goods I suppose, As long as you an art form like Collage, Where you photographs and newspaper clippings and draw up on a board.
I say. I say the people out there, When they know that there's another to this issue, When they know that like myself, Incidentally let me myself.
How am I going to make a I hope you what you are looking for. On the hand, In fact, the importance of case is wether or not artists can feel free to use done by artists of their own generation, or preceeding as the basis for the of new work It's again something that has taken in art, time and memorial, and will continue to happen. And if the courts say that a of art can have no basis in a prior work of art, that would be a damaging and destructive in relationship to the of art.
Oh, please sue us!