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Remix {Discussion}

A couple years ago I took a rock n roll music history class and we talked about copyright infringement.  Specifically we looked at The Grey Album by Danger Mouse and how serious the copyright was.  I can’t believe that this would even be an issue considering Danger Mouse didn’t get permission to use any of the audio or video tracks from Jay-Z or The Beatles.  Danger Mouse said, “[it] ‘was not my intent to break copyright laws. It was my intent to make an art project'” (Rimmer, 133).  It turns out Danger Mouse just put it on the internet for everyone to see and didn’t mean for people to download it and make it such a big deal.  I guess it’s true what people say: what you put on the internet is forever!  Once you put something on the internet, people can do whatever they want with it.