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September 22, 2004
Still Got The Power
A couple of months ago, I was contacted by Jesse Lee, the online editor for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the main blogger over at the DCCC weblog The Stakeholder. The DCCC wanted to use my Snap!/Enron mashup "Enron's Got The Power" as the audio track for a video piece that they were putting together about Bush, Tom Delay, Enron, and the California energy crisis. I was more than happy to let them use it however they saw fit, even though I later wondered if consent was even required to re-use a cheap attempt at plunderphonics that, uh, didn't really get cleared by any lawyers here in Tuba City. Question for Creative Commons theorists: should what some people refer to as copyright violation "contaminate" a work in much the same way that a GPL license does? Hmm...
At any rate, an initial version of the video has just been posted on the DCCC site, so go watch it before Snap!'s lawyers find out about it. I really like how they censored the Enron traders' uses of the f-word with cash register "ka-ching" sounds! Joe Trippi seems to like it, too.
And of course, this is all very nice timing given the indictments handed out yesterday in the Tom DeLay PAC probe. "The Hammer" has got to go....that dude really gets the Gas Face.
Posted by Tim at September 22, 2004 03:54 PM
Comments
Awesome, Tim! BTW, I downloaded the song when you posted it before and I carry it around on my phone/palm/MP3 player.
Posted by: Ruby Sinreich at September 22, 2004 06:15 PM
i'm impressed and amazed. score another point for the blogosphere.
Posted by: justin at September 22, 2004 07:39 PM
ooooooo, to the beat of the track i dont know whether to go vote or do the running man.
Posted by: cia at September 23, 2004 07:33 PM