Washington, DC | May 4, 2012
An annual, day-long celebration of fair use, creativity and remix culture.
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We’re excited to announce that Ben Huh, CEO and founder of the Cheezburger Network, will be speaking at World’s Fair Use Day! Over the course of the last three years, Ben and his team have been responsible for countless LOLs, thanks to popular blogs like I Can Has Cheezburger?, FAIL Blog and Graph Jam. Perhaps even more impressive, they’ve managed to build a sustainable business out of Internet memes, image macros and messageboard humor.
Ben Huh is the CEO and founder of Cheezburger Network. He’s a former journalist turned dot com entrepreneur who has a knack for nailing the zeitgeist and has been credited with bringing Internet memes to the mainstream and popularizing Internet culture. The success of Cheezburger Network is attributed to Ben’s knowledge of memes, viral content, and crowd sourcing. Ben graduated with a BSJ from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
We’re pleased to announce that NYC-based visual artist and event producer Ben Sisto will be speaking at World’s Fair Use Day! Ben will be moderating a panel on visual art, which will highlight the work of some of today’s most promising young visual artists. If you attended this year’s Open Video Conference, you will likely recall Ben’s presentation “Happy Birthday, Edgar,” which delved into the complex copyright issues surrounding the song “Happy Birthday to You”.
Ben Sisto is an artist and event producer living in Brooklyn. His works range from monochrome paintings to posters, word games to Powerpoint-presentations - and have been exhibited at Harvard, Mass MoCA, Artists Space, Printed Matter,etc. Sisto has previously organized events for the likes of Susan Blackmore, Fugazi, Silver Apples, Miho Hatori, and Oneohtrix Point Never, and will be speaking at this years Art Basel, Miami.
We’re very excited to announce that New York City hip-hop trio Das Racist will be speaking at World’s Fair Use Day! Over the course of just two years, Das Racist has cultivated a sizable following in underground hip-hop and indie-rock circles, on the strength of two critically-acclaimed mixtapes (both of which are available for free download on their website). They’ve been featured in The New Yorker, Pitchfork, Stereogum, Spin and countless other publications. The New York Times duly noted that “Das Racist’s lack of piety has become an aesthetic of its own, with songs that are as much commentary on hip-hop as rigorous practice of it.” In conjunction with their appearance at WFUD, Das Racist will be playing their first-ever shows in the D.C. area: 1/13 at the Talking Head in Baltimore and 1/14 at the Rock and Roll Hotel in D.C. Both shows are on sale now—don’t sleep on those tickets!
We’re excited to announce that DJ, activist and scholar Kevin Driscoll will be speaking at WFUD. Kevin will be moderating a panel on the importance of fair use in hip-hop culture.
Kevin Driscoll is a PhD student in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at University of Southern California. His recent research addresses the historicization of internet protocols, the ethnographic experience of writing software, and the technical history of hip-hop mixtapes. Kevin is also a member of the Students for Free Culture board of directors.
Welcome to the World’s Fair Use Day website! Exciting announcements and more information on World’s Fair Use Day 2011 are coming soon! In the meantime, please follow us on Tumblr and Twitter and watch the WFUD 2011 teaser trailers. See you in January!
