IP: Re: IP: Re: Great book on IP issues

[Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

From: Stanton McCandlish <mech () eff org>
To: farber () central cis upenn edu (Dave Farber)


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IPer's might be interested in this:


Negtivland are a band who do some rather situationistic stuff, and have 
been involved in some turmoil at least twice.  In the first case, they 
issued a press release designed to imply but not state that a recent murder 
suspect had been inspired by their music. Local press picked up the 
story, mutated it, and spread the meme so rapidly that it hit national 
news almost overnight, and resulted in all kinds of press calls, angry 
letters, etc.  The purpose was to demoostrate that most "news" is 
cannibalized from other "news" sources, that even most first-run news is 
insufficiently reseached, and that even begginer media manipulators can 
meet with a great deal of success, without even really trying very hard, 
and without lying.


Later, they were sued by U2's record company over sampling and royalties 
issues. That's a story in itself, and liner notes in their CDs go into 
both of these stories in some detail. I think Wired a year or so ago may 
have covered the U2-related story, which appears to be the genesis of the 
document you just saw.



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    Stanton McCandlish
        mech () eff org

         Electronic Frontier Foundation

       Online Activist