Copy/CTRL
Presented by Goldsmiths Popular Music Research Unit
Friday 8 May 2015 10.30am - 5.30pm, Room 137a, Main Building, Goldsmiths, London SE14 6NW.
Free to all, no pre-registration required
Musicians have always copied from other musicians. Beethoven copied (and modified) passages from Mozart; John Lennon copied (and modified) passages from Chuck Berry. Beethoven didn’t get hit with lawsuits, but Lennon did: even if he participated in a long history of musical creativity based on sharing and borrowing, the Beatle was caught at a place and time in which intellectual property had become legally enshrined and protected.
Systems of copyright are recent, and notions of originality are in flux. Still copying has often come to be seen in negative terms: as a mark of laziness or failure, as inauthentic or exploitative. Yet there are many kinds of copying, and musicians have used pastiche, allusion and sampling techniques not just to get going or to get on, but also to make inventive and innovative music.
Meanwhile, widely accepted ideas of ownership and belonging have been thrown into confusion by the internet: in music’s production and consumption, practices of making and sharing have been transformed as new ideas around the creative commons emerge.
More than ever, popular music creativity is at odds with the imperatives of intellectual property. Working within a tradition can seem to conflict with ideas of originality; appealing to the commons can mean opposing the individuality enshrined in copyright law.
This symposium addresses the tensions between copying and copyright control, and asks what we mean by originality, creativity and invention.
Confirmed speakers include:
John Street (UEA)
Adam Behr (Edinburgh)
Ananay Aguilar (Cambridge)
Tom Farncombe (Music Sales)
Vicki Bennett (People Like Us)
Guy Baron (Semi Precious)
Ian Gardiner (Goldsmiths)
Issie Barratt (Trinity Laban)
For directions: http://www.gold.ac.uk/find-us/
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