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RiP!: A Remix Manifesto
2008 · Film · documentary · 86 min
Directed by Brett Gaylor
RiP!: A Remix Manifesto is a 2008 open source documentary film about the "the changing concept of copyright" directed by Brett Gaylor.
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I see you're a novice to legal-ese, while pedantically forming your opinion based on... Sentence construction? Not the content?
I guess we'll just have to deal with a Europe without memes. We'll see only slower, mass-market-only creators on the internet. The small businesses, the artists, the actual innovators will have no seat at the table... because you cannot wrap you head around a multi-clause sentence.
If you're going to be that American about this, you can keep your Brexit.
On the off chance that you're here to learn instead of just quasi-Schrute-ing on everything? I would suggest you watch a couple documentaries: "Rip: A Remix Manifesto," and "Everything is a Remix," to learn how creativity works. Any efforts to restrict derivative works, such as from these small outlets, demolishes the human ability to create. These are creative commons works, so I trust you to find them without having to buy a DVD/bluray.
Here is an interesting documentary about the history of copyright, the role of Big Content, and a future vision on copyright [1] Also covers the happy birthday song.
[1] Rip: a Remix Manifesto, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EnX0vACj4Q
You may like the documentary Rip: A Remix Manifesto. They have a particularly relevant part where they step through songs from artists like Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones and compare them to the songs they were (heavily) inspired by.
Fair use doctrine is great and it was fascinating to learn about when I was a grad student at Berkeley. We need to educate people about fair use so that everyone knows how some of these lawsuits are ridiculous.
Anyone interested in how copyright vs. fair use works should watch documentary called RiP: A Remix Manifesto (http://ripremix.com/). It covers all the major issues related to copyrights, fair use etc. I highly recommend it. In fact, Lawrence Lessig is part of that documentary.