Unlicensed: Bootlegging as Creative Practice

In-depth discussions on bootlegging and its myriad definitions in the creative world

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Over the last few decades, the term "bootlegging"--a practice once relegated to smugglers and copyright infringers--has become understood as a creative act. Debates about homage, appropriation and theft, already common in the art world, are now being held in the spheres of corporate branding, social media and the creative industry as a whole. Today, bootlegging has become an aesthe...