Music & Fashion: the Balancing Act Between Creativity and Control
Music & Fashion: The Balancing Act Between Creativity and Control By Aram Sinnreich and Marissa Gluck A Norman Lear Center Conference Annenberg Auditorium USC Annenberg School for Communication January 29, 2005 2 THE NORMAN LEAR CENTER Aram Sinnreich & Marissa Gluck Music & Fashion: The Balancing Act Between Creativity and Control The Norman Lear Center Ready to Share: Fashion & the Ownership of Creativity Founded in January 2000, the Norman Lear Center is a On January 29, 2005, the Norman Lear multidisciplinary research and public Center held a landmark event on policy center exploring implications of fashion and the ownership of creativity. the convergence of entertainment, "Ready to Share: Fashion & the commerce and society. On campus, Ownership of Creativity" explored the from its base in the USC Annenberg fashion industry's enthusiastic embrace School for Communication, the Lear of sampling, appropriation and Center builds bridges between borrowed inspiration, core components schools and disciplines whose faculty of every creative process. Presented by study aspects of entertainment, media the Lear Center's Creativity, Commerce and culture. Beyond campus, it & Culture project, and sponsored by The bridges the gap between the Fashion Institute of Design & entertainment industry and academia, Merchandising/FIDM, this and between them and the public. groundbreaking conference featured Through scholarship and research; provocative trend forecasts, sleek through its fellows, conferences, fashion shows and an eclectic mix of public events and publications; and in experts from fashion, music, TV and its attempts to illuminate and repair film. Discussion sessions covered fashion the world, the Lear Center works to and creativity, intellectual property law, be at the forefront of discussion and fashion and entertainment and the practice in the field.
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