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Hybrid Vigor: Mashups, Cyborgs, And Other Necessary Monsters, Rebecca Tushnet
Hybrid Vigor: Mashups, Cyborgs, And Other Necessary Monsters, Rebecca Tushnet
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Does remix matter? This brief comment addresses the critique of importance, arguing that remix culture as well as the popular/mass culture from which it springs are of vital importance to human flourishing, invoking Donna Haraway's concept of the cyborg to investigate the fluidity, dynamism, and monstrousness of remixes and remixers.
I Put You There: User-Generated Content And Anticircumvention, Rebecca Tushnet
I Put You There: User-Generated Content And Anticircumvention, Rebecca Tushnet
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This Article discusses recent rulemaking proceedings before the Copyright Office concerning the anticircumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). During these proceedings, non-institutionally affiliated artists organized to assert their interests in making fair use of existing works, adding new voices to the debate. A proposed exemption for noncommercial remix video is justified to address the in terrorem effect of anticircumvention law on fair use. Without an exemption, fair users are subjected to a digital literacy test combined with a digital poll tax, and this regime suppresses fair use. The experience of artists (vidders) confronting the law illustrates both …