RIP: A Remix Manifesto

Girl Talk is a well known mashup artist. Here is a link to one my favorite albums of his.

The Remixer's Manifesto is as follows:

WALT DISNEY BEST MASH-UP ARTIST

I really enjoyed the section about how one of worlds best mashup artists is now a corporation that limits that appropriation.

Two key videos I watched as a spin off from this are Lawrence Lessig's 2010 TEDx talk about re-examining the remix and Johanna Blakley's 2010 talk about Fashion's Free Culture.

I really liked two diagrams that she created to represent her findings about things that are copyrighted and things that aren't.

The Fashion Video also talks about how because there is few copyrights about clothing because it is to "utilitarian" this yields lots of copying and improving which made clothes art.

I think lots of creative and culturally relevant works could be created by allowing people to use sections of them and it would also prompt people to view the original.

I created a video for 590 New Media Culture and put it on Youtube and they removed it in less than five minutes. But the same video has been up on Vimeo for over three months. You can watch the video here.

The video also touched on the pharmaceutical pattens which seem like some of the craziest things to me. If a prescription would save tons of people's lives why should it cost 100's of dollars and not be covered by most insurances. Here is a classic example from NPR about Hep C treatment plans.