Presentations, Videos, Podcasts and Articles about Remixing
Remix culture is a term employed by Lawrence Lessig and other copyright activists to describe a society which allows and encourages derivative works. Such a culture would be, by default, permissive of efforts to improve upon, change, integrate, or otherwise remix the work of copyright holders. Lessig presents this as a desirable ideal and argues, among other things, that the health, progress, and wealth creation of a culture is fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process.
Segment overview of this posdcast. \n\nAs the Bible famously says, "there is nothing new under the sun." That's pretty bleak. If it's all been said and done before, what's left? In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, remix culture. Digital sampling, audio hacking, mash-ups… In today's music and art it's all about mix and remix again.
"In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a different sound recording of a song. This is typically done with a sampler, which can be a piece of hardware or a computer program on a digital computer. Sampling is also possible with tape loops or with vinyl records on a phonograph."
Good podcast about the whole remix culture, legal aspects and such. Interviews with DJ Spooky and The World Famous Audio Hacker.
This is the second panel of the day: Ted Nelson (OII), Gaelle Carboni, (freelance journalist), Johanna Gibson (Queen Mary IP Institute), Paula de Lieu (Creative Commons)\n\n\nThis movie is part of the collection: Open Source Movies
VIDEO Panel 3: Creativity, Reuse and Issues. This movie is part of the collection: Open Source Movies
Permission culture is a term often employed by Lawrence Lessig and other copyright activists to describe a society in which copyright restrictions are pervasive and enforced to the extent that any and all uses of copyrighted works need to be explicitly leased. This has both economic and social implications: in such a society, copyright holders could require payment for each use of a work and, perhaps more importantly, permission to make any sort of derivative work.\n\nThis term is often contrasted with remix culture.
Totally Awesome Resource on remixing and copyright stranglehold. Flash Presentation on this web page - a must see.
Helpful Resources to better understand Copyright, Fairuse and Creative Commons
Putting an End to Copyright Confusion & Developing Media Literacy with your students\nFacilitators: Kristin Hokanson with Renee Hobbs & Katie Donnelly\nhttp://copyrightconfusion.wikispaces.com
FANTASTIC LIST OF FAIRUSE EXAMPLE VIDEOS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE...The study, Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video, by Center director Pat Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi, co-director of the law school’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, shows that many uses of copyrighted material in today’s online videos are eligible for fair use consideration. The study points to a wide variety of practices—satire, parody, negative and positive commentary, discussion-triggers, illustration, diaries, archiving and of course, pastiche or collage (remixes and mashups)—all of which could be legal in some circumstances.
Remix Webware - Digital Images
Remix Webware - Text
The Future of Collaborative Fiction\nStoryMash, the future of collaborative fiction. A creative writing community for authors, amateur writers, readers and anyone interested in collaborative fiction and collaborative creative writing.
example of remixing text .... MixedInk takes a fresh approach to collaborative writing. They say "It's a fun, democratic and elegant way for people to weave their best ideas together. (Plus, it's free!)"MixedInk is useful for students, employees, fans, community groups, unions, citizen journalists... pretty much any group with an opinion.
Remix Webware - Audio
ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.
Remixers If you’re into sampling, remixing and mash-ups grab the sample packs and a cappellas for download and you can upload your version back into ccMixter, for others to enjoy and re-sample. All legal.
Video makers, podcasters and music lovers If you’re into music, browse this site to hear some of the great remixes people have built from sampling music on this site, all licensed for use under Creative Commons license.
ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.
Remixers If you’re into sampling, remixing and mash-ups grab the sample packs and a cappellas for download and you can upload your version back into ccMixter, for others to enjoy and re-sample. All legal.
Video makers, podcasters and music lovers If you’re into music, browse this site to hear some of the great remixes people have built from sampling music on this site, all licensed for use under Creative Commons license.
YourSpins is a new kind of music community for fans who want to immerse themselves in world of remixes. Within YourSpins, you'll be able to share your mixes of top songs with others, rate and comment on other mixes - and chat, mail and IM other people too. Plus you can make your own unique ringtones to be sent to your phone. Each user gets their own homepage, with all their mixes and ringtones listed. Soon, we'll introduce blogs for each user, but for now, all mixes can be exported to your own blog by pressing 'Blog this mix' on the mixpage.
Remix Webware - Video
Use the Cuts Editor to make your own RiffTrax Cuts!
Upload your own video, or grab one from YouTube! Then, add some pre-recorded sound clips of Mike and co., or upload your own!
Use our handy embed code to share your creation with friends!
Happy riffing!
Resources that Respect Intellectual Property
List of links for images that RIP (respect intellectual property)