• MSc Informatics Engineer from Portugal
• demoscener since 1997
• assimilated inhabitant of TPOLM
• soundtrack for fr-055: 828 by farbrausch
  (public's choice nominee scene.org award)
• among other demos
• curator Enough Records netlabel
• former scene.org staff and pouet.net admin
• ...and don't forget to come to inérciaDemoparty2005

• Demoscene Origins
• Copyright Concearns
• Remix Culture
• Remix Culture In The Demoscene

Crack intros - C64



Alleykat crack intro / Dynamic Duo

Crack Intros - Atari



Football manager 2 intro / TGC + Blade Runners

Crack Intros - Amiga



Creatures Cracktro / Melon + Crystal

Ripped material



Samantha Fox Slideshow / An Cool

Megademos (cool vs lame)



megademo / Red Sector Inc (Tristar Party 1989)

Commercial soundtrack



State Of Mind / Bomb (2nd @ The Party 98)

Commercial soundtrack



VIP 2 Invitation / Popsy Team (1st @ Takeover 2000)

disqualified for copyright video usage



Saint / Halcyon + Da Jormas (disqualified @ Assembly 1997)

disqualified for copyright sound usage



I Feel Like A Computer / Melon Dezign (disqualified @ Assembly 2003)

couldn't get copyright permission



Barn / TDA (1st @ inérciaDemoparty2005)

Problems

• Parties Have Financial Legal Pressure
• Creators Have Difficulties To Get Permission
• Repositories Have To Deal With DMCA Takedown Requests
• Fair Use Gray Area

Solutions (and downsides)

• 100% Original Material (who defines what is original?!?)
• Screw The System (won't get submitted to bigger parties)
• P2P and/or Temporary Download (culture gets lost through time)
• Creative Commons (still has plenty of limitations)

Money

Content Creators (Free Culture - Lessig)

Content Creators (GPL - Stallman)

MAFIAA Lobbies

Consumers (Pirate Party)

Other Creative Scenes Afflicted

• ROM Hacking
• Game Mod
• Machinima
• Console Hacking

Paul's Boutique / Beastie Boys (1989)

Paul's Boutique / Amable (64k - 1st @ MS98)

Paul's Boutique / Beastie Boys (1989)

(would now take 20 million dollars losses for sample clearance)

Grey Album / DJ Danger Mouse (2004)

(White Label Released Online)

Mos Dub / Max Tannone (2010)

(White Label Released Online)

What the MAFIAA doesnt know

• "Good Artists Borrow, Great Artists Steal"
  -- Pablo Picasso
• "Copy from one, it’s plagiarism; copy from two, it’s research."
  -- William Mizner

Links

• Remix / Lawrence Lessig
• Everything is a Remix / Kerby Ferguson

remix != reappropriate



Timbalame / Chronic

remix can be tribute



Kind Of Bloop

hip hop influences



Inside / CNCD

remixing for kicks



Outside / Melon Dezign

remixing pop culture



Hyperventilation / Byterapers

remixing niche culture



fr-minus-06: ghettorocker / farbrausch

remixing for greater justice



vanilla rocker / mfx

about ripping



Riprap / Exceed

remixing WTF



Panjabmoore meets 007 again / Calodox

remixing as a joke remake



Second Reality / "Future Crew"

remixing for a musicdisk



Variform Remixed / Kewlers

remixing for pirated demo compo (tum)



Marijform / Nuance

remixing for pirate compos (inércia)



1337 / GlenZ

remixing to fill compo



Honda Gay / FXM ^ GlenZ ^ Jumalauta

remixing to experiment



A Deepness In The Sky - Dark & Long Remix / FXM

remixing to retork



A Deepness In The Sky - Knight Rider Edit / Pimp Ninja

remixing a remix icon



The Ultimate Funk Experience In The Sky / Nuance

first remix demo?



Deep - the Psilocybin Mix / CNCD & Parallax

first remix intro?



2nd hallucination / Stellar

haujobb vs mfx - proxy 2001



Kosmiset Avaruus Sienet / Haujobb

haujobb vs mfx - proxy 2001



oldskool trippin midskool nosejob -edit / mfx & Haujobb

mother, mother my eyes hurt / Haujobb

mother, mother my ears bleed / mfx

mother mother, arcane won't sleep with me / Odd

most remixed demo



Elg / Odd

call for remixes



size antimatters (valmet children dark ambient mix) / valmet children

ASD goes commercial remix



Electric Bullet / ASD ^ Excess

ASD goes experimental remix



Anoxia Redux / ASD ^ minimalartifact