Unlicensed: Bootlegging as Creative Practice Philosophie Live Smarter

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Unlicensed: Bootlegging as Creative Practice Philosophie Live SmarterOver the last few decades the term bootlegging has become understood as a creative act. The debates about homage, appropriation, and theft that are common in the art world are now being held in the sphere of corporate branding, social media, and the creative industry as a whole. Bootlegging has become fetishized as an aesthetic in and of itself, influencing everything from underground record labels to DIY T shirts, and from publishing ideologies to