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Not all borrowing is the same. From public domain illustrations on book covers to AI’s data hoarding, who really owns culture – and who gets away with taking it?

The music industry traded tape for hard drives and got a hard-earned lesson.

In January of 2021 I was exploring the corpus of Skins I collected for the Winamp Skin Museum and found some that seemed corrupted, so I decided to explore them.

A collection of 4210 classic 88×31 buttons from the 1990s, 2000s, and today in GIF format.

Play wipEout in the browser, and read the article written about rewriting it.

Endless stream of obscure media and video ephemera

“In some sense Barbie invites more of a critique because she is a role model of mass consumption, but she isn’t given that critique,” Wright said. “She is like other female archetypes, really criticized for what she represents and how she’s presenting herself in the world. It really comes back to women’s embodiment and what that symbolizes.”