Sonic Outlaws

In 1995, Baldwin rushed to support a band named Negativland whose music was a satirical collage of popular tunes. They had gotten into trouble for violating copyright laws when they sampled a U2 song. Baldwin’s 1995 film, Sonic Outlaws, focuses on the controversy surrounding the case. More structured than most of his other films, the documentary is put together from footage of interviews with a wide variety of Baldwin’s fellow media jammers and raises questions about the validity of the current system of controlling “intellectual property.”