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• 13:16 got up to watch Barack Obama's Inauguration - probably would've stayed asleep til 1 otherwise, so a good thing #
• 14:39 we'd been wondering WTH could possess Les Ailes to turf the downtown Archambault store, and now we have an answer: Forever 21 orz #
• 14:40 this not a week after Mix 96 was rebranded to Virgin Radio orz||| #
• 14:41 the first thing they did was to replace the Sunday night world music show, which has been running for approximately as long as I have lived #
• 14:41 with... wait for it... THE UK TOP 40 COUNTDOWN #
• 14:44 this has been yr weekly update on the advances of global corporate brand hegemony, fm yr friendly local MBA marketing major #
• 16:45 walked into class 5min late to find the room filled with law students watching a documentary about Girl Talk #
• 20:47 RiP: A Remix Manifesto tinyurl.com/6hs8uu #
• 20:49 and here's where to find it, in /some/ form: www.opensourcecinema.org/ #
• 23:06 actually, I have learnt from this that Girl Talk is only Girl Talk by night; by day he is a bio-medical engineer named Gregg. #
• 23:10 which for the purposes of the film is kind of brill, as it allowed him to talk about the impact of IP restrictions on both his personae #
• 23:12 copyright law as relative to the Superhero, and patent law relative to the Cover Identity #
• 23:31 actually, I tend to be irritated by the "copyleftist" sense of cheap outrage - young-people-who-geddit-versus-the-old-fogies-in-suits - #
• 23:33 as a total lack of /emotional/ concern for artists' moral rights just comes across as entitlement... but that doesn't mean they're wrong #
• 23:34 it just means that the attitude of a previous generation was to criticize Led Zeppelin for ripping off Muddy Waters, #
• 23:35 whereas the attitude of /this/ generation is to hold said fact up as a precedent for their moral right to sample Led Zep without paying #
• 23:38 if I wrote a novel and it didn't inspire ficcers and fanartists to start appropriating, I'd feel like I was getting it wrong #
• 23:39 but I doubt I'd think like that if I /didn't/ come up through fan culture, because I'm a control freak with my creative work #
• 23:41 as it is, I think artists have every right to be offended at unofficial "remixes" of their work, but not necessarily the right to stop them #
• 23:42 call it a hunch, but I doubt Leonardo da Vinci would've been enthused about what Duchamp did here www.marcelduchamp.net/L.H.O.O.Q.php #
• 23:49 then again, even Lars Ulrich is sort of coming around #
• 23:50 good thing the film touched on scientific patents, though, as I think that's more important in the grand scheme of things #
• 23:52 back to brand hegemony: apparently, retailers all want in on Montreal because Montrealers spend 9.4% of their disposable income on clothes #
• 23:52 which is 50% more than the Canadian average #
• 23:54 I mean, I am basically /that/ consumer: the one that goes back to Zara every two weeks to see how well it reflects style.com #
• 23:55 sororial unit is more an H&M girl #
• 23:57 in completely other news, Andrew WK just put out an album of J-Pop covers: tinyurl.com/7xc6vw #
• 23:58 the fact that there is an Andrew WK cover of "Shimauta" extant in the universe fills me with wonder #
• 01:15 as addendum to the review of "A Remix Manifesto" ♫ blip.fm/~1pdyl #
• 01:19 and Concordia U's rotoscoping project at P4k: tinyurl.com/48vfph #
• 01:23 ...and now I have this stuck in my head (would've made a good sequence for the film too) ♫ blip.fm/~1pe1i #
• 01:33 instead they animated the history of this sample... making a music film is all about harnessing the emotional p... ♫ blip.fm/~1pe5o #

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In practice that's not how sample clearance works, though - it's upfront payment. Which may indeed be what needs changing...