The Future of Ideas': Protecting the Old With Copyright Law (fwd)

[Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>]

New Youk Times
              January 6, 2002

              'The Future of Ideas': Protecting the
              Old With Copyright Law

              By DANIEL ZALEWSKI

                  hanks to digital technology, a delightful new art form
emerged
                  this year: the fan edit. Devotees of the pop singer Bjork,
for
              example, have begun running her songs through their computers,
              tweaking the beats and instrumentation, then posting hundreds of
              ''remixed'' versions on the Web. Some of these edits are
tone-deaf;
              others, however, trump the original arrangements. And this
summer,
              Mike J. Nichols, a ''Star Wars'' addict living in Santa Clarita,
Calif.,
              used his Macintosh to make a series of merciful cuts to ''The
              Phantom Menace'' -- most notably, the virtual elimination of the
              irksome Jar Jar Binks. Fans who obtained a copy of Nichols's
              ''Phantom Edit'' through the Internet hailed the arrival of a
vastly
              improved (if not yet good) movie.

for the complete article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/06/books/review/06ZALEWST.html



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