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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
([4]UNESCO), which aims to promote world peace and security through
international cooperation in education, arts, sciences, and culture,
has added Berlin's techno scene to its cultural heritage list.
According to UNESCO, intangible cultural heritage refers to mainly
cultural forms of expression, which are directly linked to human
creativity and traditions, and which people pass those on through
generations and are constantly evolving.
This includes practices, rituals, knowledge, skills and performing arts
such as music, dance and theater, which are meant to be preserved and
kept alive.
"Kraftwerk and African-American DJs and producers like Underground
Resistance from Detroit, made a significant contribution to the
creation and spread of techno culture," said Leichsenring.
– [5]Berlin techno on Germany's intangible cultural heritage
list, Deutsche Welle
And
Techno is a fundamental part of the city, according to Peter Kirn, a
Berlin-based DJ and music producer. In 2021 he told the Observer: "In
other cities, people wouldn't accept music that's really hard or weird
and full of synthesisers and really brutal, distorted drum machines.
You can't play that at peak hour in a club, let alone over lunch. And
here it's totally acceptable to play that over lunch.
– [6]Germany adds Berlin's techno scene to [UNESCO] cultural
heritage list, The Guardian.
And
Over the course of the 1980s, the Berlin club scene developed into one
of the world's leading centres of the beloved techno subculture of the
time.
The electronic music genre in particular became a kind of soundtrack to
the years following German reunification, symbolised by legendary clubs
such as Tresor, which opened in 1991, and the annual Love Parade.
– [7]Berlin's techno scene added to UNESCO World Heritage list,
The Local DE.
Previously:
(2020) [8]Florian Schneider, Kraftwerk Co-Founder, Dies Aged 73
(2016) [9]German Federal Constitutional Court: Artistic Freedom
Sometimes Takes Precedence Over Copyright
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[11]German Federal Constitutional Court: Artistic Freedom Sometimes
Takes Precedence Over Copyright 22 comments
[12]maxwell demon writes:
Today, the German Federal Constitutional Court decided that under
certain conditions, artistic freedom can take precedence over
copyright.
As [13]dw.com reports, the specific case the court was about sampling
two seconds of a Kraftwerk song without permission:
The legal dispute originated when electro-pop legends Kraftwerk
complained, angered at [musician Moses] Pelham "sampling" a
two-second segment of the 1977 track "Metall auf Metall" and using
it on an endless loop for rapper Sabrina Setlur's song. Initially,
Kraftwerk won an injunction from Germany's top criminal court (the
BGH) - prompting Pelham to use his only remaining recourse for
appeal and to apply for the Constitutional Court to reconsider the
verdict.
In particular,
The court ruled that composers can, under certain conditions,
incorporate external audio clips into their own music without asking
permission and do not have to pay royalties. If the copyright
infringement is only "marginal," the court said, then artistic
freedom takes precedence over the intellectual property rights of
the original musician.
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https://soylentnews.org/~hubie/
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https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=13934