RiP!: A Remix Manifesto (2/5)
Posted on 18 Oct 2009
This open source documentary had more than a few interesting arguments on the history and direction of copyright law, but too often digressed into a Girl Talk biography, and didn’t seem to understand the difference between Napster culture (massive copying and distributing of film and music) and fair use of portions of these works towards new creativity. I am most certainly a believer in remixing, mashing up, sampling, parody, satire, and the like. I also think the statute for entering the public domain is absurdly too long–Happy Birthday was written over a century ago and is still not public domain (we will have to endure Red Robins’ homemade version for another twenty years). But who am I–a small beans artist who can’t make a living stealing from Radiohead.
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