Event info: Friday 23 October 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Copyright Criminals: This Is a Sampling Sport examines the creative and commercial value of musical sampling, including the related debates over artistic expression, copyright law, and (of course) money.
This documentary traces the rise of hip-hop from the urban streets of New York to its current status as a multibillion-dollar industry. For more than thirty years, [...]
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art,
copyright,
Hip Hop,
law,
sampling
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Event info: Friday 26 June 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm
The Beehive Collective come to Jamaica Plain with their giant, portable murals that are used as a tool for popular analysis, education and organizing! The bees create collaborative, hand-illustrated posters of dizzying intricacy which are patchwork “quilts” of personal stories, historical and policy narrative, and bottom-up resistance.
In anticipation of the much-awaited “Globalization in the Western [...]
Tagged as:
agriculture,
art,
colonialism,
environment,
social movements
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