terra non firma

fair use at the hammer

I missed the screening of the film Spin by Brian Springer last night because I was here but plan to check out the hammer's exhibition on fair use in the next few weeks. the issues of fair use, reappropriation, remixing and sampling seem poised right on the edge of the public's consciousness. arguably, a museum show on it doesn't really crack the "mainstream."

however, yahoo has recently unveiled their creative commons search database, that allows its users to search for shareable content. hopefully yahoo's partnership with lawrence lessig's creativecommons.org will not only lend the stamp of legitimacy (half a decade ago the thought of any 'dot com' lending legitimacy to anything was almost laughable) but will help to push these issues into the, excuse the term, public domain.

posted by marissa @ 1:33 PM