Parody in the Age of Remix av Ragnhild Brovig

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<b>The art of mashup music, its roots in parody, and its social and legal implications.</b><br><br><br>Parody needn’t recognize copyright—but does an algorithm recognize parody? The ever-increasing popularity of remix culture and mashup music, where parody is invariably at play, presents a conundrum for internet platforms, with their extensive automatic, algorithmic policing of content. Taking a wide-ranging look at mashup music—the creative and technical considerations that go into making it; the experience of play, humor, enlightenment, and beauty it affords; and the social and legal issues it presents—<i>Parody in the Age of Remix</i> offers a pointed critique of how society balances the act of regulating art with the act of preserving it.<br><br>In several jurisdictions, national and international, parody is exempted from copyright laws. Ragnhild Brøvig contends that mashups should be understood as a form of parody, and thus be protected from removal