[wos] cultural projects to be included in wos4

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illegal art...GREAT!
i've been loving them for so long...and now finally we'll get to meet each
other.

bruder a.k.a. copycannon


> 3. Illegal Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age - Carrie
> McLaren
> http://www.illegal-art.org/
>
> Illegal Art was a show which has been put together in 2005 by Carrie
> McLaren. Carrie is a writer and the editor of the Brooklyn-based
> magazine "Stay Free!" Most recently she suggested to curate a show for
> Creative Commons USA and is working on that at the moment.
>
> Official Statement:
> "The laws governing 'intellectual property' have grown so expansive in
> recent years that artists need legal experts to sort them all out.
> Borrowing from another artwork--as jazz musicians did in the 1930s and
> Looney Tunes illustrators did in 1940s--will now land you in court. If
> the current copyright laws had been in effect back in the day, whole
> genres such as collage, hiphop, and Pop Art might have never have
> existed.
>
> The irony here couldn't be more stark. Rooted in the U.S. Constitution,
> copyright was originally intended to facilitate the exchange of ideas
> but is now being used to stifle it.
>
> The Illegal Art Exhibit will celebrate what is rapidly becoming the
> "degenerate art" of a corporate age: art and ideas on the legal fringes
> of intellectual property. Some of the pieces in the show have eluded
> lawyers; others have had to appear in court.
>
> Loaded with gray areas, intellectual property law inevitably has a
> silencing effect, discouraging the creation of new works.
>
> Should artists be allowed to use copyrighted materials? Where do the
> First Amendment and "intellectual property" law collide? What is art's
> future if the current laws are allowed to stand?"