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| | Wired News: Mashup Artists Face the Music |
 | | Until recently, mashups had been the province of underground DJs, in part because those doing the remixing hardly ever had permission from the original artists to do so. |
 | | But when Bowie, as part of an ad campaign for a German carmaker, got into the game with his mashup contest, some DJs said the legendary musician risked killing something they love. |
 | | Nicholas Reville, a co-founder of the music activist project Downhill Battle, says people shouldn't mistake Bowie's intentions for the altruism that many mashup artists display in their work. |
| www.wired.com /news/digiwood/0,1412,63314,00.html (813 words) |
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