Remix Culture - a cultural appropriation by Richard Walker (2004-2008)
20090908 at 23:51 a cultural appropriation by Richard Walker
Update: May 2008
From the Lessig Blog:
TotalRecut has launched a remix contest: “What is Remix Culture?” I’m a judge (as close as I’ll ever get to that title, but now twice — just finished judging the Obama in :30 contest). Cool prizes. Great question. Get busy.
Update: Feb 2008
- Lawrence Lessig has retired from his role as Free Culture advocate, and will be focusing on how money corrupts politics. A moment of silence, please!
- Steal This Film II is a very good shareware film that explain some Intellectual Property issues and history, without requiring you be a lawyer.
- Jenny Toomey has left the Future of Music Coalition.
- Nine Inch Nails released the source material to a work in the form of Garage Band Tracks. This was done specifically to allow remixing of the work.
- Nine Inch Nails in collaboration with Saul Williams offered a release with alternative payment options
- Radiohead stirred up a big controversy by releasing their last album In Rainbows with alternative payment options, including “zero money” pricing.
Cory Doctorow
EFF graduate, Sci Fi writer, copyfighter, technologist, Canadian, CC-er
- Craphound (vanity blog)
- Boing Boing! a directory of wonderful things
- Overclocked - a collection of short stories open for CC remix, mashup
US Rep Mike Doyle Defends Mixtapes and Mashups on Floor of Congress
The Ecstasy of Influence
radio program “Open Source”, Christopher Lydon, PRI) Feb 2007
The “Ecstasy of Influence” with novelist Jonathan Lethem, who asks: without borrowing, stealing, cribbing, remixing, mashing-up, collaging and compiling — without influences great and small, in other words — is “creating” even possible?
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Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3)
Click to listen to my “Back to School Edit” of the show (includes illustrative audio under Hosler interview) (15:45)
Open Source - Mark Hosler of Negativland - Back to school edit v2
Mark Hosler - Founding member, Negativland
The “Ecstasy of Influence” with novelist Jonathan Lethem, who asks: without borrowing, stealing, cribbing, remixing, mashing-up, collaging and compiling — without influences great and small, in other words — is “creating” even possible?
Click to listen to my “Back to School Edit” of the show (includes illustrative audio under Hosler interview) (15:45)
Congressman Rick Boucher: Congress Must Balance its Copyright Agenda
An episode of Center for Internet and Society published on February 2, 2007
The Stanford Law & Policy Review and Stanford Law School welcomed Congressman Rick Boucher (D., Va.) to deliver a speech entitled “Congress Must Balance its Copyright Agenda”.
Code Monkey Remix Contest
Jonathan Coulton’s charming “Code Monkey” is a song about a programmer. At the end of 2006, Jonathan and Quick Stop Entertainment held the “Code Monkey Remix Contest” [which provides links to tools to help get you started at remixing]
Here are the winners; I particularly like what Kristen Shirts did with it.
There many code monkey videos and video remixes on YouTube. Click here to search.
Thanks to Amber MacArthur and Leo Laporte for covering this on their podcast Net@Nite, ep14Future of Music Coalition
I’ve been a supporter and fan of Jenny Toomey’s efforts for years now. She and her cohorts are working hard to make a better future for artists.
Lawrence Lessig (his blog)
You may have heard of Creative Commons or the Electronic Frontier Foundation, two critical efforts he champions, both conceived “for the good of the people.”
He welcomes artistic appropriation of his book “Free Culture,” just click the link below…
“The Creative Remix” (October 2004) an hour-long broadcast special from
Here are Track one and Track two
A very enjoyable, lawyer-free, in-depth examination into the nature of creativity and “originality” from antiquity to the present day. Grey Album. Ancient pornographic literary theft. East Coast relics are given new life during an installation. Curmudgeonly antiques dealers are contrasted with young art school graduates. “What is this?” “Less than five hundred bucks” the trafficker in dead things mutters.
Open Source - Mark Hosler of Negativland - Back to school edit v2
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