Not I have anything against shoe salesmen, but let me tell you See, I was with a song 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 sold in this country, and me, they're not being used for dictation. They're being used to copy records. There is no of copyright for home taping, period, without the of the owner.
What's on anyways? comes out of the machine is different than what in.
The new tech, the new tech, the new technology.
The most important things the invention of tape is that it music from being an event in time, into an event in space.
The relationship between a and an original ...into being an in space.
I think it challanges notions we have the relationship between a copy and an
You can edit it, the songs. And of course when it's played back, You're dealing in the sense In the same sense you're with any plastic material And ofcourse, then it's played back, it once again becomes an in time.
But during that (I suppose) But during that intrum period, where a spacial thing, you can do lots of with it. Lots of that you never had available to -, Prior to -, Prior to -, The of tape.
It took while (seeing) before anybody seeing the possibilities of the possibilities of this
What's the power of reproducing into our own heads? That the old boundaries between what was my And what was Have confused.
a sample
And instead of making their own (Anything you can do I can do I can do anything you)
Only a
Old technologies get with new ones
I find this between original and copy, and all the new technology use information
A sound... Allow you to something, You And put it into your own So when you press a 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 hear a And put it your own music. Somebody recording. A sound from else.
is redefined Destabilizes the older of distribution.
By the way, I don't know how many I've made the refrence to the U.S. Copyright Law
?'s law was written in 1924. It was partially in 1988. But the of the law back 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 everything we've come to look at in modern life as information. One of the major criticizems of a legal system stuctured in way is that it does copyright law into disrespect, and it law generally into disrespect. If one has a system which makes common activities wrong in the eyes of the law, and yet is doing it - then you begin to wonder - is law worthy of
(You something?) Everything about it is (You something?) Everything the will allow (The people who listening) No-way can you get that happy (You and daughter) When you are (You need 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 country what's happening. Look, oh)
I feel stolen I feel stolen I still feel goods are stolen goods, Let's go on the stealing... But I can't comment on it, 'cause I keep like, but... but... but... As long as you accept stolem As long as you accept an art form like stolen I suppose, As long as you an art form like Collage, you take 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 side to issue, When they know people like myself, let me interrupt myself.
How am I going to a living? 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 own generation, or preceeding generations as the for the creation of new work It's something that has taken place in art, time and memorial, and will continue to happen. And if the courts say a work of art can have no basis in a prior of art, that would be a very damaging and destructive statement in to the of art.
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