Video Mash-Up Mixing

clipped from www.pirate-university.org The mashing up of videos is the newest element in the mash up genre, people are mixing videos as well as re-editing movies. Famous directors have even admitted they wish they could re cut their films and provide multiple versions to the public. Steven Soderbergh director of “Sex, Lie & Videotape” and “Ocean 11” said this about mash up videos “I have ideas like that – video mash-ups. Some of them I’ve done privately. But there’s no way for them to be seen legally. I wish we could come up with a system that allowed someone to do a Grey Album without having to pay millions of dollars for music rights. A system in which rights holders share profits of a new piece of work and people can access it without breaking the law.”

When copyright law meets the ‘mash-up’

clipped from www.boycott-riaa.com Record producer Brian Burton knew he’d done something technically illegal when he electronically blended tracks from the Beatles’ “White Album” and vocals from Jay-Z’s “The Black Album” into a CD called “The Grey Album.” But he was so excited by the mix of Fab Four riffs and Jay-Z raps that he badly wanted people to hear it. “When I was finished, it was the biggest sense of accomplishment I’ve had over anything,” he said. So in January, the Los Angeles-based Burton, who records as DJ Danger Mouse, made a couple of thousand copies of the disc and started mailing them out.