Monday night my groupmates and I went back to the Enormous Room to interview the DJ's performing that night. In an interview with DJ Wayne & Wax I found out the following about him.
Musician turned DJ, Wayne & Wax, began his music career in a blues band but slowly made his way to towards the flashy lights of Hip-Hop. He states hip-hop has always been his love and inspiration to DJing. When he first started playing around with beats and vocals, Wayne & Wax messed around with popular hip-hop tracks. As his skill began to develop he switched over to making his own beats which he would use to mashup.
When I asked him about problems he may have had with dtistributing his work and copyrights, his response to this was that he hasn't had any problems because he doesn't try to make money at all off his albums. Every copy of his album has been free and he also puts them on the internet for free. By distributing his albums for free and performing in pubic settings Wayne & Wax has found a way to get around the issues of copyright. On the other hand if Wayne & Wax were to go mainstream with his music he would have to deal with copyright laws head on and end up paying royalties to those whom he has sampled.
4 comments:
If he doesn't make any money off his music, does he get paid just for the actual gig of playing at the enormous room?
This is a really interesting post-- because it points to a 'free culture' which is different then the 'purchase culture' which we heard Lawrence Lessing discuss in the Copyright Criminal video. How does the 'digital' part of what DJ Wayne and Wax contribute to a 'free culture' which is vibrant and interesting without a music industry contract or 'the big money'?
I think it makes sense that as long as a DJ isn't making money off of his/her creations, they shouldn't be faced with copyright problems. I think Dj's contrubute to "free culture" because of how they are able to combine various pieces to create a new one. And what they create can then be changed again to create something else because of its digital nature.
The DJs are always paid for their live performances. It is only the Cds that are basically free.
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