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The art of mashup music, its roots in parody, and its social and legal implications.
Parody needn’t recognize copyright—but does an algorithm recognize parody? The ever-increasing popularity of remix culture and mashup music, where parody is invariably at play, presents a conundrum for internet platforms, with their extensive automatic, algorithmic policing of content. Taking a wide-ranging look at mashup music—the creative and technical considerations that go into making it; the experience of play, humor, enlightenment, and beauty it affords; and the social and legal issues it presents—Parody in the Age of Remix offers a pointed critique of how society balances the act of regulating art with the act of preserving it.
In several jurisdictions, national and international, parody is exempted from copyright laws. And mashups should be understood as a form of parody, Ragnhild Brøvig-Hanssen contends, and thus protected from removal from hosting platforms. Nonetheless, current copyright-related content-moderation regimes, relying on algorithmic detection and automated decision making, frequently eliminate what might otherwise be deemed gray-area content—to the detriment of human listeners and, especially, artists. Given the inaccuracy of takedowns, Parody in the Age of Remix makes a persuasive argument for greater protection for remix creativity in the future—but it also suggests that the content moderation challenges facing mashup producers and other remixers are symptomatic of larger societal issues concerning positional power, the privatization of the law, and the unjust regulation of culture.
Parody in the Age of Remix Mashup Creativity vs. the Takedown
by Brøvig, RagnhildFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2023-06-27
Publisher(s): The MIT Press
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Author Biography
Ragnhild Brøvig-Hanssen is Professor of Popular Music Studies in the Department of Musicology and Research Fellow at RITMO, the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion at the University of Oslo.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
1 Introduction: Mashups and Takedowns 1
2 Mashup Music as Parody: Its Roots and Specificity 27
3 Producing Mashups and the Pleasure of Play 53
4 The HAHA, AHA, and AH Impacts of Mashups 93
5 Sampling Ethics and Mashups' Legality 137
6 How Platform Moderation Affects Mashup Producers 175
7 Authorship and Ownership in the Age of Remix and Takedowns 209
Appendix: Notes on MASHED Interview and Survey Methods 231
Notes 237
References 269
Index 299
1 Introduction: Mashups and Takedowns 1
2 Mashup Music as Parody: Its Roots and Specificity 27
3 Producing Mashups and the Pleasure of Play 53
4 The HAHA, AHA, and AH Impacts of Mashups 93
5 Sampling Ethics and Mashups' Legality 137
6 How Platform Moderation Affects Mashup Producers 175
7 Authorship and Ownership in the Age of Remix and Takedowns 209
Appendix: Notes on MASHED Interview and Survey Methods 231
Notes 237
References 269
Index 299
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