Girl Talk: Everyone Borrows Intellectual Property, Even Kings of Leon

Remix master Gregg Gillis of Girl Talk doesn't buy into the traditional notions of copyright and intellectual property and says that even Kings of Leon are recycling when they borrow their sound from Creedence Clearwater Revival. For the full interview with Girl Talk, visit http://www.uncensoredinterview.com/artists/380-girl-talk

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[threebboyz]

ne 1 kno if this was at bonnaroo 07? i kno girl talk was there and kings too..

[UncensoredInterview]

We actually shot this at All Points West in New York last summer. Good guess though!

[jorgecafe24]

Sue Kings of Leon

[fsufan850]

I love the credence-Kings comparison

[scraps2j]

There's a major difference between learning how to play something similar to CCR and takinga sample of it, playing it on some speakers and calling it your own. What Girl Talk does is, by definition, an unauthorized derivative work and it is an infringement. It's not fair use. It's not creative or transformative. He's just lucky no one has sued him yet. Take a copyright law class before you respond to this.

[KoenHead]

@RedFishKilla NO! They are NOT artists. The make nothing. DJ Culture is simply for the unimaginative, ACD generation. There are musicians young and old who fail to see how anyone with a soul could be entertained by them. Your confusion doesn't surprise me, though. You just haven't matured enough to see right through these musical scam artists. You've been duped, and yet still go back for me. I feel sorry for you......

[KoenHead]

@JohnHam This dummy STEALS other's music and calls it his own. What the fuck is there to GET? It's YOU who has their head up their ass. Theft of intellectual property may be fine with you. If taking the time and love to sit and create your own music has me living in the past, so be it. So it's all been done? At least I am the one doing it. Girl Talk is "innovative?" Really? Man, I do feel sorry for your morally and intellectually bankrupt generation. Real music will always trump theft. ALWAYS!

[JohnHam]

@KoenHead

You don't get it and you never will.

Enjoy living in the past. Everything you're making has been done. Time and time again. You're on the cutting edge of nothing.

Though I think his mash ups are kind of obnoxious, he's doing something pretty innovative. Making the argument that you need instruments to make music is dead. Your side lost. Get over it.

[izzyczzunow]

@KoenHead

Geeze! It's not like Girl Talk ever claims it's all his music. He does recognize that he uses lots of samples and thanks the musicians for making sick jams that he can then use to craft works of art. You use this argument about 'instruments' but I can't think of many songs that he samples that use actual instruments but computers like Girl Talk. It also takes time and skill to make good remixes which is what he wants people to recognize. He should get some credit for his work.

[meanderband]

@KoenHead well good thing music doesnt piss on people... i bet u do though. u seem to get off on it

[KoenHead]

@meanderband Just go DIE. You wouldn't know real music if it pissed on you. Fuck you.....THERE, NOW I'm done.

[meanderband]

@KoenHead Right... ur a Troll. going to a girl talk video to talk shit to make u feel better about the crappy covers and music u make is just sad. peace man...

[KoenHead]

@meanderband Your too stupid to get it, aren't you?? When you cover a song live, you normally and respectfully acknowledge that fact. Dummies like Girl Talk diddles around on a laptop and his gullible audience is in awe of his amazing performance, when in fact, he hasn't done a fucking thing. I MAKE music. Girl Talk steals it and shits it back out to idiots like you. Clueless? Go FUCK yourself. Live music will always trump people who pretend to have musical talent, like Girl Talk. Ya heard??