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After I stumbled upon the iconic Obama "Hope" poster, I remembered that back in 2009, artist Shepard Fairey was being sued by the owner of the original photograph (AP). Back then I was not very interested in copyright issues, so I never checked what happened with this case. It's interesting and kind of fair that AP and Shepard settled on working together, sharing the rights, and collaborating on other images+photographs. Even though Shepard transformed a "stolen" photograph, his "theft" actually put the original photo on the map. I consider it to be a fair solution for a fair use case.

"The third single to be released was "Deer in the Headlights",[3] released on May 24, 2011 (but as an iTunes Exclusive, was made available for download the previous day). The single was announced in a different way than what is considered traditional. Starting May 16, 2011, every day of that week part of the song would be added to the sneak peek.[14] It was originally just called "New Song", and fans had to guess the new song. The first part of the song to be released were the drums, followed by the addition of bass, guitar, synthesizer, and vocals over the next four days. On the final day, the title for the song was announced." This came to mind when I read the "studio as a compositional tool." Owl City made the layers of his new song very transparent to his listeners as a way of introducing his latest song. Unfortunately links were only active for 24 hours with each instrument. So, I have nothing for you to listen to...

The original for my project. Has been samples in several rap songs in different ways over the years. Links to follow.

i remember it well.....sigh

If one remix/mashup is ruled to be under fair use could all potentially be fair use as well? ... Has one been ruled fair use? If so, why isn't that case used as landmark/"resource" case for others

I don't expect anyone to know who William Burroughs, one of the greatest writers ever, is (hah) but here's a great "WILLIAM BURROUGHS X OBAMA HOPE MASH UP" :) Looks better than the original.

This is a really good mashup of songs and the guy plays it on pipes...

Originally this music video was made to the Cab Calloway version of the song "st james infirmary blues" in 1933 (I think). The White Stripes did a remix version of the song and then somebody tried to line up their version to the video!

Here's the original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBk3jwNSteo

what do you think about this distinction between authenticity and originality?

The term boilerplate describes a type of textual remix, and, if you look at its origins, the word itself is its own remix.

Not much of a fan of this, but I found it pretty cool how Mike Tompkins has recorded himself as the singer, the snare, the violin, and other various instruments and mashed them all together to remix Katy Perry's, "Firework." It reminds me of early hip-hop artist taking samples from different songs to create their own original track. Mike manages to create a  multi person band with only himself. 

Not entirely educational, but the link lists almost every example in media of when a fictional character thinks of an "original" idea that is in fact recycled from the past (like what is discussed with the Lolita article).

A cover of a song that raised interest in the original version.

I love this song! I don't know too much about how to play a guitar but I think the way the five people in this video use one guitar to provide the different instruments is really cool and interesting!

Information and a link to the viral video "The Crazy Nasty-Ass Honey Badger"--originally nature footage aired by National Geographic, later "remixed" by adding a different voice over. The video spawned several ad campaigns, a line of products, and the nickname for now inactive LSU Tyrann Mathieu.