HIST 315 1st Edition Lecture 23Outline of Last Lecture I. CopyrightII. CasesIII. SamplingOutline of Current Lecture I. More on copyrightII. Fair useIII. DMCAIV. Inequality for allCurrent LectureSampling: Piracy or Creativity-How do you charge for sampling? Can you say no? Do you have to acknowledge the original? How do you legally get permission? -MC Hammer U Can't Touch This used Rick James' Superfreak; eventually had to give James "co-compositional credit" and settles out of court for an undisclosed amount of money Led Zeppelin's Kashmir; Schooly D samples the song and it's featured on Bad Lieutenant; Zeppelin sued and won, movie producers had to destroy all unsold copies of the film since the soundtrack was unfairly sampled and uncredited to the original artist Copyright issues reflect back to the social issues at the time; certain racial and social classes of artists were better protected from copyright infringement Post-1991 "Chilling Effect" limits wiggle room for fair use of sampling-Settlements are up to 2 million dollars -Biz Markie vs. Gilbert O'Sullivan; argues that he's satirizing the music not copying and also that everyone else is doing it so why can't he?oConsequence: has to remove the song from his album When is fair use allowed? Fair use: for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, reaching, scholarship or research is not an infringement of copyright -2 Live Crew's version of Pretty woman vs. Roy Orbison's The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA of 1998)These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.Criminalized production/ dissemination of technology that circumvents copyright protectionHeightened the penalties for copyright infringement on the Internet/ digital reproduction Class Stratification and the Consolidation of Wealth-Conspicuous consumption and hidden inequality; most Americans think that the country is more equal than it is -> why? How did we get here? -Top 20% of wealthy Americans control 85% of the wealth; surveys say that American people would want the top 20% should control only 30%-Top 1% control 50% of the wealth-"Wealth" defined as the sum of assets minus debts, not just income -Cultural Capital: degrees, experiences, jobs supposed to make you more successfulIntersectionality: Race, Sex and Gender Film: Inequality for
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