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Remix’s retreat? Content moderation, copyright law and mashup music
- Source :
- New Media & Society. 25:1271-1289
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2021.
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Abstract
- Many online media platforms currently utilise algorithmically driven content moderation to prevent copyright infringement. This article explores content moderation’s effect on mashup music – a form of remix which relies primarily on the unauthorised combining of pre-existing, recognisable recordings. Drawing on interviews ( n = 30) and an online survey ( n = 92) with mashup producers, we show that content moderation affects producers’ creative decisions and distribution strategies, and has a strong negative effect on their overall motivation to create mashups. The objections that producers hold to this state of affairs often strongly resonate with current copyright exceptions. However, we argue that these exceptions, which form a legal ‘grey zone’, are currently unsatisfactorily accommodated for by platforms. Platforms’ political-economic power allows them, in effect, to ‘occupy’ and control this zone. Consequently, the practical efficacy of copyright law’s exceptions in this setting is significantly reduced.
- Subjects :
- 050502 law
Fair use
Sociology and Political Science
business.industry
Computer science
Communication
05 social sciences
Copyright law
Internet privacy
Copyright infringement
Sampling (statistics)
050801 communication & media studies
computer.software_genre
Moderation
Digital media
0508 media and communications
Mashup
business
Content (Freudian dream analysis)
computer
0505 law
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14617315 and 14614448
- Volume :
- 25
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- New Media & Society
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........775953262b8c507758251117ae272052