Golden Gate University Law Review Volume 22 Article 5 Issue 2 Notes and Comments January 1992 Renaming that Tune: Aural Collage, Parody and Fair Use Alan Korn Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/ggulrev Part of the Intellectual Property Law Commons Recommended Citation Alan Korn, Renaming that Tune: Aural Collage, Parody and Fair Use, 22 Golden Gate U. L. Rev. (1992). http://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/ggulrev/vol22/iss2/5 This Comment is brought to you for free and open access by the Academic Journals at GGU Law Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Golden Gate University Law Review by an authorized administrator of GGU Law Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Korn: Renaming that Tune COMMENTS RENAMING THAT TUNE: AURALCOLLAGE,PARODY AND FAIR USE Recording has always been a means of social control, a stake in politics, regardless of the available technologies. Power is no longer content to enact its legitimacy; it records and reproduces the societies it rules. Stockpiling memory, retaining history or time, dis tributing speech, and manipulating infor mation has always been an attribute of civil and priestly power, beginning with the Tables of the Law. But before the industrial age, this attribute did not occupy center stage: Moses stuttered and it was Aaron who spoke. But there was already no mistaking: the real ity of power belonged to he who was able to reproduce the divine word, not to he who gave it voice ... on a daily basis. Possessing the means of recording allows one to monitor noises, to maintain them, and to control their repetition within a determined code.