Pace University DigitalCommons@Pace Pace Law Faculty Publications School of Law 2009 "Criminal Minded?": Mixtape DJs, The Piracy Paradox, and Lessons for the Recording Industry Horace E. Anderson Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/lawfaculty Part of the Intellectual Property Law Commons Recommended Citation Horace E. Anderson, "Criminal Minded?": Mixtape DJs, The Piracy Paradox, and Lessons for the Recording Industry, 76 Tenn. L. Rev. 111 (2009), http://digitalcommons.pace.edu/lawfaculty/484/. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Law at DigitalCommons@Pace. It has been accepted for inclusion in Pace Law Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@Pace. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. "CRIMINAL MINDED?":' MIXTAPE DJS, THE PIRACY PARADOX, AND LESSONS FOR THE RECORDING INDUSTRY HORACE E. ANDERSON, JR.* ' 2 "There's nothing that sells music like music. - 50 Cent "Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should do it."3 - Folk wisdom For at least the past three years, leading American fashion designers have lobbied for passage of copyright-like protection for the design aspects of their apparel creations.4 For at least as long, the recorded-music industry has been engaged in an aggressive campaign to enforce its copyrights in recorded music against a number of technology-enabled, culturally ,,sympathetic alleged,,5 infringers, including "twelve year-olds" and grandmothers. Although the record labels already have protection under the copyright law while the fashion houses seek it, both groups have at least 1.