RiP - a Remix Manifesto

Girl Talk and Director Brett Gaylor aim to re-define Fair Use in the music industry by arguing that remix culture is a matter of creativity over legality. Available for one week only or at Disinformation.

Alternative Freedom

...A documentary about the invisible war on culture...

...While Congress changes our copyright laws under the behests of a few powerful corporations, individuals across the United States are losing their digital rights. Activists are working together to change this oppressive regime and create an alternative of freedom. Two filmmakers uncover the most important legal battles of our time: Copyright Law and Digital Rights Management. Featuring interviews with DJ Danger Mouse, Lawrence Lessig and more. FEATURES: DANGER MOUSE, ANDREW "BUNNIE" HUANG, LAWRENCE LESSIG, JASON SCHULTZ, RICHARD STALLMAN, DOSEONE

RiP - a Remix Manifesto

...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.

A participatory media experiment, from day one, Brett shares his raw footage at opensourcecinema.org, for anyone to remix. This movie-as-mash-up method allows these remixes to become an integral part of the film. With RiP: A remix manifesto, Gaylor and Girl Talk sound an urgent alarm and draw the lines of battle.

Which side of the ideas war are you on?

Free Culture Remix

...for full illuminating lecture, see panel on left...
A remix of:
"Free Culture" by Lawrence Lessig
"Bound By Law" by Keith Aoki, James Boyle, and Jennifer Jenkins
"Mind Field" DJ Blue

Ultimate Mash - ThruYOU

...this really is special, all hail kutiman...

...After seeing ThruYOU yesterday, Lawrence Lessig, the author of “Remix,” the bible of the free-culture generation, wrote: “Watch this, and you’ll understand everything and more than what I try to explain in my book.”...

...What ThruYOU tells us is that all bets are off. The DNA of our media system has mutated so completely that it’s only a matter of time before our society changes as well.

In fact, that change is already happening.

In politics, economics, arts and culture, an era of privileged access is giving way to something that’s much more decentralized, participatory and personal.

...rest of story HERE...

TESTIFY!!! Banned by Fox!

...FAME at last!!! BANNED by YouTube!!!...
...although this video isn't "Live" anymore because of copyright issues (the 20th Century Fox logo that crashes in at 1:11), you can still see it HERE on rfsMojoTV...
...UPDATE!!! can't watch it here no more, but you can still see it here...

...shirley this constitutes fair use of a logo in a political satire?!? or is that out now? nevermind the heavy use of the film Vanishing Point, or the splice of The Beatles, or the myriad of other audio/visual samples used and abused but perfectly fine (at this point), just the fairly unbalanced Fox lashing out again etc etc...at this point we had to send mungo out to calm down...
...you're no-one till you've been banned by youtube...

...anotherQUATILYproduct...

STEAL THIS FILM!!!

IN 2006, A GROUP OF FRIENDS DECIDED TO MAKE A FILM ABOUT FILESHARING... AND THROUGH THE PIRATE BAY, WE WERE COPIED AND MULTIPLIED BEYOND OUR IMAGINATIONS! TODAY THE PIRATE BAY ARE ON TRIAL AND WE ARE PROUD TO SUPPORT THEM WITH THIS SPECIAL 'TRIAL EDITION' OF STEAL THIS FILM.

STF 'TRIAL EDITION' CONTAINS UNSEEN FOOTAGE, INCLUDING BROKEP AND TIAMO PREPARING FOR THE TRIAL, AND RE-ENACTMENTS OF THEIR POLICE INTERVIEWS. IT IS A 'STEAL THIS FILM 2.5', HALFWAY BETWEEN 'PART 2' AND THE 'FINAL CUT' WE ARE SHOOTING RIGHT NOW IN STOCKHOLM @ THE TRIAL.

FOLLOWING THIS RELEASE, WE WILL BE OFFERING IRREGULAR REPORTS ON THE TRIAL, WHICH WE'LL DISTRIBUTE IN CONJUNCTION WITH OUR FRIENDS @ TORRENTFREAK. AS ALWAYS SHARE, REDISTRIBUTE AND REJOICE, DONATE IF YOU LIKE. WE ARE ALL ON TRIAL TODAY.

LEAGUE OF NOBLE PEERS. FEB 2009.

stealthisfilm.com/trial

Creativity BUILDS on the PAST

...the WoMaD (WORLD of MOJO and DANCE) celebrations continue here on MojoTV with another video on copyright issues from Globians Film Festival, this one outlining the Creative Commons License...

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can i get an AMEN!!!

...welcome to the wonderful WORLD of MOJO and DANCE here on MojoTV with Can I Get An Amen? , an audio installation that unfolds a critical perspective of perhaps the most sampled drum beats in the history of recorded music, the Amen Break. It begins with the pop track Amen Brother by 60's soul band The Winstons, and traces the transformation of their drum solo from its original context as part of a 'B' side vinyl single into its use as a key aural ingredient in contemporary cultural expression. The work attempts to bring into scrutiny the techno-utopian notion that 'information wants to be free'- it questions its effectiveness as a democratizing agent. This as well as other issues are foregrounded through a history of the Amen Break and its peculiar relationship to current copyright law.

Contact Information: nate@nkhstudio.com, www.nkhstudio.com