Unlicensed: Bootlegging as Creative Practice asbooks Author/ Editor: Aurélien Froment/ Olivier

Author/ Editor: Aurélien Froment/ Olivier Michelon
With texts by Anna Craycroft

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Unlicensed: Bootlegging as Creative Practice asbooks Author/ Editor: Aurélien Froment/ OlivierOver the last few decades the term bootlegginga practice once relegated to smugglers and copyright infringershas 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