Blog
Jan 8, 2019
Do you ever listen to records like the Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique or Public Enemy’s Fear of a Black Planet and wonder why they sound so different from today’s hip-hop? It turns out one of the biggest reasons may be copyright law, a topic explored by Kembrew McLeod (no relation) and Peter DiCola inCreative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling (March, Duke University Press).