Good Copy Bad Copy explores the state of limbo the world is in when it comes to copyright.

Western media conglomerates and rights owners desire one world order, while ‘pirates’ and cultural movements in the third world invent their own rules. Rules that even the West might have to play along with.

In a Pittsburgh living room, DJ and producer Girl Talk composes catchy pop hits on his laptop. In the span of 30 seconds he samples Elton John, Notorious B.I.G and Destiny’s Child into a new song. But, who owns the music? Who owns the artists? Piracy is booming all over the world - from Nigeria to Brazil, while Hollywood and the record industry fight to stem the tide.

Directors:
Andreas Johnsen
Ralf Christensen
Henrik Moltke

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The below is an excerpt from a news item at Blackball Records regarding a Jawbreaker documentary that is in the works. Adam Pfahler (drummer of Jawbreaker) and Keith Schieron (director of “we jam econo: the minutemen documentary” ) have been working on this project for a little over a year and Adam has expressed his hope to finish by end of 2007.

I have been talking to We Jam Econo (the Minutemen documentary) filmmaker Keith Schieron about doing a Jawbreaker doc. I have been
dumping footage into Final Cut, which I will go through with Blake before editing. I don?t know what the arc of this story will be. As long as it doesn’t come off too self congratulatory or play like some cautionary tale on the pitfalls of the music industry, I think it could be cool. Please email me any thoughts you have on this project. And if anyone out there has film of us, please contact me. We need all the source material we can get our hands on.

This is fantastic news from Adam which will surely please the fans. I’ll be on the lookout for when this hits the shelves to get a copy for my
own and to spread the word as far as I possibly can.