Cassetteboy: The Art of Mashup 

First thing to note is that mashups have become legal in the UK in the time since this lecture was given. Also, _CassetteBoy vs The Bloody Apprentice_ is back on RU-vid, with 6.8M views -- presumably they appealed the takedown and won, since the upload date is May 2009, years before it was taken down. Laws differ from country to country but the thing about movie reviews is that the review itself is original material and copyright law in most places explicitly allows quotations for review. Obviously, there are limits -- you couldn't just include the whole movie and add the review "I really enjoyed that" -- but you're usually not going to get into trouble if you're only using a small fraction of the original material. The problem with mashups is (or, rather, was) that there's no original material: 100% of the resulting audio and video was taken from others. Of course, finding exactly which parts to take and in which order is hugely creative and UK law now recognizes that -- but it didn't used to.

Sure, but not everybody is confident in their ability to speak in front of a couple of hundred people. I'd rather hear them give a slightly awkward read talk than not hear them at all.

Count Basie Kakoric "Fenchlaw" Dan Dix remix.

It's paper cards in his hand..

estoniaman Might be Ipaper.

St. Mark We've finally come to a point where kids don't recognize index cards and assume that they're some new thing shat out by Job's bloated corpse. It's a brave new world, lads and lassies.