Powerful computers and easy-to-use editing software are challenging our conceptions of authorship and creativity. As usual, the entertainment industry doesn't like this one bit.

Home remixing is technically incredibly easy to do. ... What we're seeing is the result of a democratization of creativity and the demystification of the process of authorship and creativity.

... turntables now routinely outsell guitars ...

To teens, recombination -- whether legal or not -- doesn't feel wrong in the slightest.

Bootlegs may be the first new genre of music that is almost entirely contraband.

In blurring the distinction between consumers and producers, new digital tools are challenging the very ideas of creativity and authorship.