UNLICENSED contains twenty-one interviews with a range of creative practitioners on the topic of bootlegging.

Han outlines the ideas: quan (law shifting weight), zhen ji (process-based origin), and shanzhai, rejecting fixed originality.

Analyzes Chinese appropriation art, linking linmo and shanzhai with Western theory to examine copying and originality.

Hennessey examines Chinese copycat culture, relation to creativity, and the legal frameworks enabling it.

Get out of your comfort zone. Learn from the Shan Zhai players. Become a fearless experimenter.

This work offers a broad view on media piracy as well as a variety of comparative perspectives on recent issues.

Set during the Sung dynasty, a group of outlaws hiding out in the mountains fight against the oppressive empire.

Boon, argues copying is fundamental to being human, worth celebrating, and key to understanding ourselves and the world.

Analyzes counterfeit goods as a global industry shaped by technology, fashion history, and weak IP enforcement.

Fashion counterfeit production examined through interview with industry producers, vendors, and desingers.

Discusses shanzhai as an iterative system of innovation shaped by legal ambiguity, and reinterpretations of originality.

Critiques state censorship and control shown through the blocking of a shanzhai Spring Festival Gala in China.

Describes counterfeit shoe trafficking, focusing on production networks, and China-origin supply chains.

Dazed critiques the once popular ironic fashion fake that at blurred lines of authenticity and imitation in fashion.

Interview with Shanzhai Lyric for Ben Schwartz’ UNLISCENSED series.

Interview with Experimental Jetset for Ben Schwartz’ UNLISCENSED series.

Shanzhai Lyric is interviewed about their fictional office entity, ‘Canal Street Research Association.’

Disnovation.org merges art, research, and hacking into experimental works, known for the publication The Pirate Book.

Interview with Ming Lin and Alexandra Tatarsky, exploring bootleg fashion, and counterfeit economies as poetic research.