Unlicensed: Bootlegging as Creative Practice

Unlicensed: Bootlegging as Creative Practice

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Over the last few decades the term ‘bootlegging’—a practice once relegated to smugglers and copyright infringers—has become understood as a creative act. Debates about homage, appropriation, and theft that are common in the art world, are now being held in the spheres of corporate branding, social media, and the creative industry as a whole. Today, bootlegging has become fetishized as an aesthetic in and of itself, influencing everything from underground record labels to DIY T-shirts, publishing ideologies, to acts of high fashion détournement. UNLICENSED contains twenty-one interviews with a range of creative practitioners on the topic of bootlegging.

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