Comments on: Girl Talk: Illegal Art At Its Finest

By: Amy D/ Chicago

Amy D/ Chicago — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:23:18 +0000

Invention does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.
Amy D/ Chicago

By: richard

richard — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:22:33 +0000

It was very cool to see this, since I had just seen the movie documentary “Good Copy Bad Copy”, which I strongly recommend and you can download for free (legally) - just google it.

He was featured in the documentary and it addresses a lot of the issues he discussed, but hearing them from him directly and seeing some of his work, makes the issues more alive and personnel, which is cool.

Great video.

By: » Girl Talk

» Girl Talk — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 19:43:33 +0000

[…] Cool interview with Gregg Gillis aka Girl Talk. […]

By: Girl Talk Interview on "Ryan Is Hungry" - Creative Commons

Girl Talk Interview on "Ryan Is Hungry" - Creative Commons — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:54:40 +0000

[…] Be sure to check out this recent interview w/ Gregg Gillis, aka Girl Talk, over on Ryan is Hungry. In the interview, Gregg goes into detail about creating his art, how it intersects and interacts with current copyright law, remixing, and specifically how efforts like Creative Commons can help artists in a positive way. It is a great interview and is a must-see for anyone interested in how remixing, new technology, and the internet are changing our very understanding of content creation and consumption. […]

By: jay

jay — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:54:12 +0000

copyright and reuse is still an emerging battlefield. In other interviews, Gregg says he would gladly pay fees for samples if A) they were appropriate an affordable B)a normal person could actually find a way to buy use rights.

As it stands now, only a big artist like madonna has the pull and the lawyers to deal with other lawyers. As an experiment, try licensing a sample from a Jimi Hendrix song. You probably wont be able to find out who to contact. If you do, they probably will not respond to you. If they do respond and do consider your request, the fee they will charge for the sample will probably be astronomical.

as Gregg says, regardless of how anyone feels about current copyright law, we must accept that remix tools are all too common now, and the web enables people to spread media too easily. It’s evolution. Change and be changed. It can be easy and logical…or it can be painful and ugly.

By: Sweet T

Sweet T — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:47:50 +0000

interesting to see that it’s legal to use samples and sell it as your own. and if that’s the case, why must artists pay to sample on their own songs? example: madonna paying abba to use “gimme gimme gimme” for that funked up dance video she did… or is it that they just have to ask permission? is it a courtesty thing?

p.s. comment pop up worked fine for me =)

By: jay

jay — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:42:37 +0000

I think Gregg aka GirlTalk would say his work is legal under fair use since he’s making an original work out of different sources.

as for our commenting system, I agree it should be easier and more obvious. We’re planning a site overhaul this summer…so look out.

By: EEUU

EEUU — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:58:28 +0000

Comedy is legally sacrosanct, as perhaps “educational” creations by students are also. Seeing the remixer’s behavior on video undeniably qualifies Girl Talk for the former genre.
RT
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