{"id":59,"date":"2005-08-18T03:50:29","date_gmt":"2005-08-18T01:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/2005\/the-public-domain-and-the-sampler\/"},"modified":"2010-11-14T01:49:30","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T23:49:30","slug":"the-public-domain-and-the-sampler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"The Public Domain and the Sampler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artist <a href=\"http:\/\/nkhstudio.com\/\">Nate Harrison<\/a> use the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amen_break\">Amen Break<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/media\/amen.mp3\">mp3<\/a>, 125 kB), a classic drum beat sample, as an example when talking about copyright in relation to the public domain and free culture. In it&#8217;s own calm and mellow way, the film is indeed a torch in an already heated debate.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The work attempts to bring into scrutiny the techno-utopian notion that &#8216;information wants to be free&#8217; [&#8230;] This as well as other issues are foregrounded through a history of the Amen Break and its peculiar relationship to current copyright law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This video clip has circulated around the net for a few months now, and by accident I happened to watch it again a few minutes ago. Surely most of you have already seen it, but if you haven&#8217;t &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/nkhstudio.com\/pages\/amen_mp4.html\">check it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist Nate Harrison use the Amen Break (mp3, 125 kB), a classic drum beat sample, as an example when talking about copyright in relation to the public domain and free culture. In it&#8217;s own calm and mellow way, the film is indeed a torch in an already heated debate. The work attempts to bring into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viewsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}