“Sharing is the essence of creation”
24th June 09
Posted in crowdsourcing, culture, transformational change
Wow, are we looking forward to seeing this film in full.
“RiP: A Remix Manifesto” - a film about remix and copyright culture. It explores copyright issues in the information age, where the media landscape is being profoundly transformed, and the distinction between producers and consumers is becoming blurred, to say the least.
This is the trailer and it’s uplifting, provocative, challenging and inspiring, all at the same time. Full of complex debates and clearly coming with a strong point of view on how those debates might be - must be - resolved (so not everyone will agree with this, by any means, but heh, that’s good right?).
Features contributions from Gilberto Gil, Laurence Lessig, Cory Doctorow, and many more. We’re particularly looking forward to seeing the awesome Lessig in action again: “There is no way to kill this technology, we can only criminalize its use” - Laurence Lessig.
Download the film in full, paying what you think it’s worth: http://www.ripremix.com/
Check their blog: http://www3.nfb.ca/webextension/rip-a-remix-manifesto/
Follow them on Twitter: http://twitter.com/remixmanifesto
(Thanks to Marc Schiller - @marcdschiller - for the heads up)
7 comments on ““Sharing is the essence of creation””
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Ben Malbon
Yes, outside of a few glaring omissions in the music examples, a brilliant documentary.
Scroll to exactly 4minutes, starts with Muddy Waters and moves to the present…wow
http://www3.nfb.ca/webextension/rip-a-remix-manifesto/?film=2
I saw it a few weeks ago, and thought it was excellent- A great summation of the debate surrounding copyright legislation, with a killer sound track to boot.
What I took out of it, above all else, however, was that nothing is created in a vacuum. To that extent, everyone is copying something, and their is thus incredible hypocrisy to a corporation like Disney suing a small nursery for using their iconic characters without permission, when Walt himself often plagiarized, stole and copied others to create these iconic characters.
Definitely worth watching…and remixing.
hope they covered this guy:
http://www.youtube.com/user/schmoyoho
Daily Show remixed by R Kelly remixed by whiskey and barbiturates…
I got to see this at the Open Video Conference last week. It’s very well done and a must see.
if you haven’t, download the kopimi manifest here:
http://www.brainsalad.com/kopimi/powr.broccoli.kopimi.pdf
brilliant document.
Steve that’s awesome. Thanks. Not seen that before, so looking forward to dipping in. B
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