Unlicensed: Bootlegging as Creative Practice asbooks and what it means to

and what it means to look and to be seen

“David Reinfurt's new book provides … in depth access to a historical analysis

color and b&w images

Author/ Editor: Aurélien Froment/ Olivier Michelon
With texts by Anna Craycroft

images have played a central role

Unlicensed: Bootlegging as Creative Practice asbooks and what it means toOver 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