Youtube RemiX culture

ReMiX culture

Fair use is your friend

When it is OK to use copyright material?

MAKING NEW STUFF FROM EXIXTING.
Remix IS EVERYWHERE

- Coppyright is balance.
- CR gives its owners protection and creators ability to make new work using old materials.
- Private sesorship.

How do we know when we can use Fair use?

- Fair use is code of practice. For example, code of best practice for online videos provides guidelines.
- Use the code to respond to takedowns and defending your rights .
- Limitations also can be found in code of practice.

/Peter Jaszi (American University Law School) /

Copyleft is a way of using of the copyright on the program. It doesn't mean abandoning the copyright; in fact, doing so would make copyleft impossible. The “left” in “copyleft” is not a reference to the verb “to leave”—only to the direction which is the inverse of “right”.

Copyleft is a play on the word copyright to describe the practice of using copyright law to remove restrictions on distributing copies and modified versions of a work for others and requiring that the same freedoms be preserved in modified versions.

/Patricia Aufderheide (film professor, American U)/

Whata are situations where Fair use applies?

- commenting / critiquing;
- illustration / example;
- incidental use;
- cultural rescue;
- launching discussion;
- mashups.

Always make sure your copyright material is transformative, it is PROPORTIONAL for your purpouse, allways give CREDIT to your sorces.

Information from :

A ReMix Manifesto

1. Culture always builds on the past.
2. The past always tries to control the future.
3. Our future is becoming less free.
4. To build free societies you must limit the control of the past.

Copyleft

Poster above designed by Dan Gilmore.

and new language was born ---> REMIX

Illegal Art is a record label pushing the limits of sample-based music since 1998. We are comprised of artists such as Girl Talk, Junk Culture, Touch People, Okapi, People Like Us, The Bran Flakes, Steinksi, and more.

http://illegal-art.net/

In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.

The film's central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power or the Pied Piper of piracy? Creative Commons founder, Lawrence Lessig, Brazil's Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow are also along for the ride.

Consumers are now creators!

Private corporations

Public domain

Parody images about copyright law by Sharpe Attack :

Copyright intelectual property

Copyleft
Remix

PAST

FUTURE

It might appear unfair towards the artists to let everyone re use their creations and materials and many would argue it is killing the industry of music but remixing is not modern thing that only appeared recently. People always remix and even popular artists do. For example Led Zeppelin "Lot of Love" is remake of the song "You need love" written by Muddy Waters years before Led Zeppelin. Another example is traditional Folk song recorded first by Staple Singers in 1959 was reinvented in The Rolling Stones song "The last time" in 1965, replayed again by Andrew Oldham Orchestra 1966 and reborn again in 1997 in song "Bittersweet Symphony" by The Verve. What happened next? Rolling stones publishers sued the Verve for 100% royalties and Keith Richard and Mick Jagger took all writing credits and then sold the song to Nike for a TV comercial.
Warner/ Chappell WB did not write "Happy Birthday" song but claims copyright.

Copyright was designed to encourage creation not to restrict.

It is benificial to share the ideas

Lock up culture (preventing from copping by software restrictions)

Remix culture (open source and collaborative platforms make sharing easyer)

Youtube is one of the most popular collaborative platforms, where consumers become a creators and can easily download, remix/remake videos and upload them back for others to see. This youtube remixing have led to many new and exciting videos going viral and shown on TV. For example this stupid video of Nyan cat been remixed by many people and became very popular and has near to 1million hits. Below are just some examples of this remix, and some more funny Remixes from youtube.

Remix.me is a lot more than a remix contest.
Download remix kits (multitrack songs). Remix them. Sell your remixes.


“Every track these days should be considered a work in progress
Everything is version 1.0, and anybody should be allowed to take your ideas and add their own ideas to it. We need to be more open about music, ideas and ownership.
For electronic music to progress we need to be more open-minded.
I believe a producer should be allowed to reuse and resample anything they want, in a reasonable manner.
At the moment, a producer creates a track and then this song is supposed to be left like that forever, like a rock in a field... everything changes with time, and I believe that each song should be allowed to have a life of its own after it’s released to the public.”
Richie Hawtin

Creative commons

Our vision is nothing less than realizing the full potential of the Internet — universal access to research and education, full participation in culture — to drive a new era of development, growth, and productivity.

Creative Commons develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.

Virtual Entity is a research project and a work of art starting from the assumption that the concepts of authenticity, ownership, uniqueness and seriality are, within the digital domain, no longer valid whereas they are not redefined.

The practical aspect of this research is a simple application developed to release, license, and catalogue digital files. This system, transforming the traditional approach towards metadata, is based on the idea that any file is an independent creation living its own life and experiencing various levels of transformation and progressive generation (of meaning, shape, and entities) in the course of its virtual existence. This way digital resources, interpreted as cultural units, are considered the main actors of the web.

Virtual Entity constructs in parallel a theoretical mythical world and its functional technical counterpart; it is, in this sense, a physical and metaphysical software. Its (viral) diffusion may generate a decentralized archive characterized by spontaneous and uncontrollable growth, and the history of digital data starts writing itself.

Virtual Entity