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LACMA's Magritte Exhibition: This is not fair use

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The "Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images" exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art manages to both celebrate and betray fair use at the same time. These are canonical fair uses -- an artist who takes from another artist and uses his work to make new work.

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The Johnny Cash Project: A Participatory Music Video That Sings

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To construct the video, artist Chris Milk assembled images and footage of Johnny Cash in a sequence along with the song. Some viewers might enjoy populating a video with frames that feature references to Christ; others might prefer highly photorealistic images. That's hardly revolutionary. The site gives credit to contributors.

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Why is Google Screaming?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, of course I wanted to remix it. from the date of the painting but for the life of the artist + 70 years after. from the date of the painting but for the life of the artist + 70 years after. Image from Art News Blog shown here via HTML IMG code (Hmm. Is it Munch's birthday? Ah, a quick mouseover and it is birthday.

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Curated Collaborative Filtering: Listening to Pandora

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You enter a seed artist or song (or several) and Pandora starts playing music that it interprets as related in some way to your selections. It doesn’t just group artists together and play music by similar musicians. Pandora uses collaborative filtering to create a real-time radio station for you based on your preferences.