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Nature 453, 33-34 (1 May 2008) | doi:10.1038/453033a; Published online 30 April 2008

Open Innovation Challenges

Mix and mash-up

Marc Weidenbaum1

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An experimental musician explores how technology has transformed our cut-and-paste culture.

BOOK REVIEWEDSound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture

edited by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid
MIT Press: 2008. 416 pp (plus CD). $29.95, £17.95

Not every disc jockey has their first book-jacket blurb penned by Stanford University law professor Lawrence Lessig, the public-intellectual face of copyright reform in the era of digital technology. Nor does every DJ have their second book introduced by Steve Reich, a leading minimalist classical composer.