{"id":616,"date":"2019-03-05T02:15:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T02:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=616"},"modified":"2019-03-05T02:15:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T02:15:39","slug":"cory-doctorow-terra-nullius-locus-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=616","title":{"rendered":"Cory Doctorow: Terra Nullius \u2013 Locus Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good point by Doctorow on intellectual property as regards music:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The parts of musical composition that Europeans reify \u2013 melody \u2013 are eligible for copyright, but the characteristically Afro-Caribbean elements \u2013 complex polyrhythm \u2013 are not. Hence, the Beatles could appropriate R&amp;B progressions and rhythms to make new music out of, but woe betide the hiphop artist who samples the Beatles to make a new composition today. The Beatles worked with unimproved nature (R&amp;B), while samplers are stealing the property of the Beatles\u2019 record label.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Musical &#8220;styles&#8221; are in their rhythms and their harmonic progressions; it seems odd that anyone can play &#8220;in a style&#8221; and make original music, but can&#8217;t play an existing melody in another style and call it original.<\/p>\n<p>Part of a bigger article about <a href=\"https:\/\/locusmag.com\/2019\/03\/cory-doctorow-terra-nullius\/\">property rights, &#8220;Terra nullius&#8221; and John Locke<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/locusmag.com\/2019\/03\/cory-doctorow-terra-nullius\/\">Cory Doctorow: Terra Nullius \u2013 Locus Online<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good point by Doctorow on intellectual property as regards music: The parts of musical composition that Europeans reify \u2013 melody \u2013 are eligible for copyright, but the characteristically Afro-Caribbean elements \u2013 complex polyrhythm \u2013 are not. Hence, the Beatles could appropriate R&amp;B progressions and rhythms to make new music out of, but woe betide the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}