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Illegitimate Offspring

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Melies color Voyage dans la lune, by Georges Méliès, Public Domain.

Salon has two good stories this weekend on mash-ups (also known, across the pond, as “bastard pop”): 1, 2.

These older Salon stories on the same subject, from 2002 and 1998, provide a couple of nice reference points. If this is all just a trend, it’s a sure and steady one.

Read about Creative Commons’ plans to help make this sort of of culture legitimate, in the law’s eyes at least.

Posted 10 August 2003