Dive into the archives.
- Shepard Fairey Is Not a Crook
This is well-written article by Steven Heller that looks at Fairey’s 20 year career. Heller argues that Fairey should not be considered a crook, rather that his work should be looked at as a critique on image ownership – in the same tradition as Warhol and his re-purposing of brands and culture.
- RiP: A Remixer Manifesto: Part 4
Lawrence Lessig Gives Brett Some Advice
Lessig has been traveling the globe for over a decade trying to convince the world to re-think copyright. We asked him for some legal advice.
- RiP: A Remixer Manifesto: Part 3
Asking Permission
What would happen if Girl Talk asked permission to sample from the people who own the history of music?
- RiP: A Remixer Manifesto: Part 2
Culture Always Builds On The Past
Did Muddy Waters build on the blues? And did Led Zeppelin build on Muddy Waters? Does Girl Talk need permission to build on all of it?
- RiP: A Remixer Manifesto: Part 1
This week will be dedicated to the genius and ambition of Bret Gaylor, filmmaker the founder of OpenCinema.org. For anyone who cultural producer, please take the 4-5 minutes to watch this clip. There will be more to follow throughout the week. The entire collection of shorts can be found at: http://www3.nfb.ca/webextension/rip-a-remix-manifesto
The Past tries to control [...]
- CRTC Regulation of Online Content
Watch Clip One – Colin Mochrie
Watch Clip 2 – Ira Wagman, an assistant professor at Carleton
Should CRTC programming regualtions apply to content that’s delivered online? Representatives from the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (led by Actor Colin Mochrie) argue that Canadian content is getting burried under foreign content as more and [...]
- Is There Any Hope for Fair Use?
The AP needs to get a life. Now they’re going after artist Shepard Fairey for his re-purposing of a supposed AP copyrighted photo of Obama. I say supposed because the photographer who snapped the pic was on a temporary placement at the AP and never did sign a contract with them – so who actually [...]
- Streamzy.com : Music & Video Search / Stream
The super easy-to-use Streamzy has managed to skirt around legal issues with serving up on-demand music and video files online by piggy backing off of Seeqpod’s servers. They’ve basically just wrapped a Flash interface and search engine around Seeqpod’s service. It’s a great service for end users, but the never ending question over a revenue [...]
- Open Source Cinema
Fantastic idea from Brett Gaylor at opensourcecinema.org – a collaborative documentary project about copyright stuff in light of digital distribution and sharing of music, video, etc.
- The Pirate’s Dilemma :: Matt Mason
The Pirate’s Dilemma by Matt Mason (2008)
The act of piracy has largely built the culture that we enjoy today. The music, movie, cable TV and book industries were all partially built upon ‘borrowing’ someone else’s content, and reselling that content for a hefty profit. Now, the industries that blatantly ignored copyright are the very ones [...]
