EVERYTHING IS A REMIXKIRBY FERGUSON

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▸ Remix is a type of fold art

▸ It is very common, used it many types of media

▸ “everything is a remix”

LED ZEPPELIN AWESOME OR A RIP OFF?

▸ They didn’t credit anyone but their rip offs were considered a legal remix

GENRE FILMS

▸ Films are built on other films

▸ Even Star Wars has been done before

▸ Existing templates from other movies were used for special effects shots in Star Wars

BLURRY BOUNDARY

▸ There are blurry boundaries between original and unoriginal

▸ Kill Bill is a super mash up of existing films

COPYING

▸ Copying is how we learn

▸ We can’t learn anything new until we know the “language”

▸ “no one starts out original"

REMIXING TECHNOLOGY

▸ Mac got their graphical interface from Xerox

▸ Technology exposes all the connections and remixing

IT CAN HAPPEN ANYWHERE

▸ Innovations can happen by different people in different places at the same time

▸ Culture develops the same way evolution occurs

REMIX CAN BACKFIRE

▸ Disney got early movie ideas from the public domain (free ideas) but when they produced original content established copyrights

▸ 62% of patent lawsuits are about software

COPYRIGHTS

▸ There are companies that acquire patent rights then litigate to earn profits

▸ These companies don’t produce any conent

▸ Copying is okay when you're the one doing it (biased laws)