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Galactica: Sabotage smash-up

By Ira Nathenson on March 13, 2010

Wired reports on Katie King’s excellent video Galactica: Sabotage, a kind of mash-up/homage to Spike Jones’ video for the Beastie Boys’ song Sabotage.  The new video substitutes clips from the recently ended Battlestar Galactica series, but in a way that almost perfectly tracks the images from Jones’ original video. Below is a side-by-side comparison of [...]

Posted in Copyright, Fair Use, Featured, Intellectual Property, Pop culture, Technology | Tagged Battlestar Galactica, Beastie Boys, Beatles, Grey Album, Video ID | Leave a response

Musings on the Shatman

By Ira Nathenson on June 5, 2008

I have to admit that I’m an unabashed Star Trek fan. (Not a surprise, I suppose.) I recently read William Shatner’s new book, Up Till Now: The Autobiography (co-written with David Fisher). I highly recommend it. It’s well-written, informative, and witty. Shatner alternates between self-effacing charm, unabashed pomposity, and a gleeful hawking of goods available [...]

Posted in Pop culture | Tagged Beatles, Copyright, Fair Use, Fun, Mash-ups, Parody, Pop culture, Star Trek, YouTube | Leave a response

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