Collection of essays by academics and artists that considers the possibilities of appropriation art, the legal ramifications of such practices, and the intersection of popular culture and the avant-garde.

I Collage, Therefore I Am: An Introduction to Cutting Across Media / Kembrew McLeod and Rudolf Kuenzli 1Digital Mana: On the Source of the Infinite Proliferation of Mutant Copies on Contemporary Culture / Marcus Boon 24Copyrights and Copywrongs: An Interview with Siva Vaidhyanathan / Carrie McLaren 38Das Plagiierenwerk: Convolute Uii / David Tetzlaff 51PhotoStatic Magazine and the Rise of the Casual Publisher / Lloyd Dunn 57Plagiarism®174; 101: An Appropriated Oral History of the Tape-beatles / Kembrew McLeod 76Ambiguity and Theft / Joshua Clover 84Where Does Sad News Come From? / Douglas Kahn 94Excerpts from "Two Relationships to a Cultural Public Domain" / Negativland 117Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Lawsuit: William S. Burroughs, DJ Danger Mouse, and the Politics of Grey Tuesday / Davis Schneiderman 132How Copyright Law Changed Hip-Hop: An Interview with Public Enemy's Chuck D and Hank Shocklee / Kembrew McLeod 152Hip-Hop Meets the Avant-Garde: A Cease and Desist Letter from Attorneys Representing Philip Glass / Warner Special Products 158Getting Snippety / Philo T. Farnsworth 160Crashing the Spectacle: A Forgotten History of Digital Sampling, Infringement, Copyright Liberation, and the End of Recorded Music / Kembrew McLeod 164Billboard Liberation: A Photo Essay / Craig Baldwin 178On the Seamlessly Nomadic Future of Collage / Pierre Joris 185Cultural Sampling and Social Critique: The Collage Aesthetic of Chris Ofili / Lorraine Morales Cox 199Remixing Cultures: Bartók and Kodály in the Age of Indigenous Cultural Rights / Gábor Vályi 219A Day to Sing: Creativity, Diversity, and Freedom of Expression in the Network Society / Jeff Chang 237Visualizing Copyright, Seeing Hegemony: Toward a Meta-Critique of Intellectual Property / Eva Hemmungs Wirtén 252Collage as Practice and Metaphor in Popular Culture / David Banash 264Assassination Weapons: The Visual Culture of New Wave Science Fiction / Rob Latham 276Free Culture: A Conversation with Jonathan Lethem / Kembrew McLeod 290The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism / Jonathan Lethem 298Bibliography 327Contributors 341Index 345