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Author Guertin, Carolyn

Title Digital prohibition : piracy and authorship in new media art / by Carolyn Guertin
Published London : Continuum International Pub., 2012

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Description 1 online resource (305 pages)
Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction: Ambivalence and authorship; The third space of authorship; The new Prohibition; PART ONE The aesthetics of appropriation; Interruption (stoppage + repetition); Disturbance (action + event); Capture/leakage (performance + documentation); Dynamic data and augmented bodies; PART TWO Authorship; From karaoke culture to vernacular video; 'Aberrant decoding' and atactical aesthetics; Google Empire: smart art, intelligent agents; Real time; PART THREE Creative cannibalism and digital; Digital anthropophagy; Translation: performing the in between
'Productive mistranslation' (China and Pakistan)Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary The act of creation requires us to remix existing cultural content and yet recent sweeping changes to copyright laws have criminalized the creative act as a violation of corporate rights in a commodified world. Copyright was originally designed to protect publishers, not authors, and has now gained a stranglehold on our ability to transport, read, write, teach and publish digital materials. Contrasting Western models with issues of piracy as practiced in Asia, Digital Prohibition explores the concept of authorship as a capitalist institution and posits the Marxist idea of the multitude (la An
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Piracy (Copyright) -- United States
Piracy (Copyright)
Digital media -- Law and legislation.
Art and technology.
New media art.
Communication and technology.
Technology: general issues.
Media studies.
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Art and technology
Communication and technology
Digital media -- Law and legislation
New media art
Piracy (Copyright)
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781441150585
1441150587
9781441166432
1441166432
1628927852
9781628927856
1280577525
9781280577529
9786613607256
6613607258