UNLICENSED. Bootlegging as Creative Practice. - Ben Schwartz 226pp wraps in a printed

226pp wraps in a printed dust jacket

Apart from cigarettes and sex

What was once a promising field rooted in problem-solving has become a problem in itself

'As a student at Central Saint Martins in the early aughts

CONTRIBUTORSCarla Montemayor

UNLICENSED. Bootlegging as Creative Practice. - Ben Schwartz 226pp wraps in a printedOver the last few decades the term bootlegginga practice once relegated to smugglers and copyright infringershas become understood as a creative act. Debates about homage, appropriation, and theft that are 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 fetishized as an aesthetic in and of itself, influencing everything from underground