
Within days after the release of Negativland's clever parody of U2 and Casey Kasem, recording industry giant Island Records descended upon the band with a battery of lawyers intent on erasing the piece from the history of rock music. Craig Baldwin follows this and other intellectual property controversies across the contemporary arts scene. Playful and ironic, his cut-and-paste collage-essay surveys the prospects for an "electronic folk culture" in the midst of an increasingl... (Full plot summary below)
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Within days after the release of Negativland's clever parody of U2 and Casey Kasem, recording industry giant Island Records descended upon the band with a battery of lawyers intent on erasing the piece from the history of rock music. Craig Baldwin follows this and other intellectual property controversies across the contemporary arts scene. Playful and ironic, his cut-and-paste collage-essay surveys the prospects for an "electronic folk culture" in the midst of an increasingly commodified corporate media landscape.
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| City Pages, Minneapolis/St. PaulRob NelsonMeaning to tear down the house with the master's tools, Sonic Outlaws assembles an A/V blitzkrieg itself, |
| User ReviewJoe SNot much you wouldn't know if you followed any of these stories to begin with. No real new info comes out about the Negativland situation that hasn't been told before, but the way the film is put together if very fun to watch. |
| User ReviewGreg Di love these guys but this got tedious. i get it already. ironically, not enough information. |