Sinnreich Moscow Address

Innovation and Ownership in Creative Communities
Aram Sinnreich, Ph.D.Rutgers University School of Communication & Information

Traditional Culture: Quilting
Poor, rural community in Alabama, US
No concept of authorship or copyright…
…UNTIL a lawsuit against the art dealers who “discovered” their work

Traditional Culture: Food
Robin Wickens,
Melbourne’s Interlude
Wylie Dufresne,
WD-50
"We all plagiarize all the time. All we can do is stand on the shoulders of the people before us. It's a grey area. None of us is completely innocent.”
- Wylie Dufresne
“I guess I did something bad and have to pay the punishment - but it happens a lot more regularly than people realize.”
- Robin Wickens

Traditional Culture: Fashion
“I don't think this diminishes Balenciaga's creativity at all. . . My question is always: Who can do it better? We're all savvy enough to know what's been borrowed and what hasn't.”
- Julie Gilhart, Barney’s NY
“Yes, I made a mistake. Now my team and I laugh about it, but at the time I was hurt by some of the things people wrote. But yes, absolutely I made a mistake. It was my fault.”
- Nicolas Ghesquiere
Kaisik Wong
1973
Nicolas Ghesquiere
2002

Emerging Culture: Mashups
Danger Mouse, The Grey Album, 2004
“Unfair competition and dilution of our valuable property.”
- EMI
“Best Album of 2004”
- Entertainment Weekly
"I think it was a really strong album. I champion any form of creativity, and that was a genius idea”
- Jay-Z

Emerging Culture: Dojinshi & Fan Subs
“Companies like industry leader ADV wouldn’t have been successful without a fansubbing-built customer base. Indeed, the founders of ADV wouldn’t even have known about anime without fansubs.” – IP Attorney Jordan Hatcher
“Without fan distribution, the fan network, the domestic industry, and thus the anime explosion, would not have taken off as it did in the 1990s.”
- Sean Leonard, MIT

Emerging Culture: Filipino Cover Bands
Arnel Pineda
Journey
The Zoo
2007: Journey hires Pineda as frontman after seeing his YouTube cover videos
2008: Journey’s “Revelation” album goes platinum
2008: Concert revenues for the band top $35,000,000

Thank you. Спасибо.
Aram Sinnreich, Ph.D.sinn@rutgers.edu

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