Artistic Copyright etc.

I still love Charlie Brooker.

This week’s summation by him of artistic integrity, rights, and copyrights is spot-on.

The arrest may not be Hirst’s fault, but sod it: let’s appropriate any resultant outrage and apply it to him anyway. Cartrain’s almost certainly a self-promoting gump and a poor man’s Banksy – but he’s 19, for heaven’s sake. He’s allowed to be an almost impossible arse.

But you’ll have to read the article to see how the above quote fits in with the one below…

In its heyday, the Radio 1 Sunday evening Top 40 countdown constituted the biggest file-sharing portal in British history, with millions of users hooked up simultaneously, mercilessly downloading content to their tape decks.