UNLICENSED

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 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 record labels to DIY T-shirts, publishi
ng ideologies, to acts of high fashion detournement.
UNLICENSED contains twenty-one interviews with a range of creative practitioners on the topic of bootlegging. The conversations in UNLICENSED investigate bootlegging''s creative and critical p
otential, and explore new ways bootlegging can be deployed in order to thrive as an impactful cultural force.