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Saturday, January 10, 2009

RiP: A Remix Manifesto

What better way to deal with the issues of remixing and copyright law than an open-source, video project with contributions from great minds and great 'users' of copyrights. Enter "RiP: A Remix Manifesto." Forget, for a minute, whether you're on the copyright right or the copyright left- I want information. I want angles. I want perspectives, and you should too. This project is one of those, so watch it.

Girl Talk's Gregg Gillis is in deep. His band's last album had more than 300 samples, and it turns out he's becoming a poster child for the remix debacle. Read Wikinomics and you'll know why. There's a shift that's a long time in coming. A culture built on overt use and reuse. Collaboration. We'll get farther as a society, but at what cost...that's the real question.

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