RIP! A Remix Manifesto

Available on iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/c2yxs4 and DVD: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001WB6MNK/disinformation

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.

Which side of the ideas war are you on?

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• copyright
• piracy
• P2P
• music
• industry
• creativity
• remix
• rip
• mashup
• activism
• free
• culture

[biggermama]

I wonder if they are going to start charging me each time I sing a song in the shower. Cause that is how ridiculous it is getting.

[xldevo]

Piracy is not theft. It's piracy. Theft removes the original. Piracy makes a copy.

[sabikaxox]

Is girl talk a paragon of people power or the pied piper of piracy?

anyone have an answer for that?

[MrJohnthedoe]

Available on iTunes? What about pirate bay?

Ah, irony

[QuantumAnomaly]

Listen at approx 1Hr, 5 min into the movie.

"In 1980 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that living organisms could be patented."

"Soon after this decision, Ayahuasca was patented by an American entrepreneur."

"Now that you could patent life, the race was on. The 20th Century had been the century of property, of land. The 21st Century was to be of intellectual property of ideas."

FAIL

It's just a race to hoist one's flag and say "this is mine, fuck you".

Didn't your parents teach you to share?

[yannimarx]

What version of Bittersweet Symphony is this?!?! Is it downloadable as mp3 somewhere?

I know, probably an epically lame and generic question. But thats actually a really good remix (as opposed to most remixes which are shittastic).

[Syphonaptera]

@ivanhole , sorry to bust your bubble kid , I decide that for myself. Ivan hole....(?) what a name....tshh tshh

[ivanhole]

your comments are not worth the typing...

[Syphonaptera]

@RingZero76 , the biggest problem is there are so few actually "buying"Cd's nowadays...it is frightening to see the drop of sales. Compare the amount of sales to get a platinum record 10 years ago with the amount of today...I worked in a recordshop and the sales rate of Top A atrists dropped nationwide 15 %....that is sad....:(

[Syphonaptera]

@ourboneswerechalk , well, please give us the URL's were we can download your stuff then, I am curious....And then , let me know where you see yourself as a musician in about ...well,...let's say...5 years. Cheers.

[Syphonaptera]

@ivanhole Hey vanhole , stop wining , if you cannot take and stand criticism then leave Jewtube for the grownups...you baby...

[ivanhole]

hey disinfodave, why don't you just block this syphonaptera? he's a bitch with nothing nice to say. if he can't say something nice, make him say nothing. what a jerk