rip:remix manifesto

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Authorship & Interaction | Ba(Hons) Graphic Communication Design | University of Westminster

Girl Talk

rip: a remix manifesto is essentially just as its title explains.. "A manifesto, a call to overhaul copyright laws", a documentary in which copyright laws and copyrighting is examines within this new 'information' age that we are living in. Written and directed by Brett Gaylor in 2008, the movie explores a part of Gregg Michael Gillis's life.

Gregg Michael Gillis, who is also known as Girl Talk, is a musician of a different kind, as he doesn't work within a studio environment, he is more of a 'mixing existing music within my bedroom' type of musician, a mash-up artist.

He appeared in 'rip: a remix manifesto' as a test case for fair use. His parents, in one scene, complain to him about his frequent stripping during his performances. He also discusses his medical career and how the copyright laws affect his research.

And this is how it's made

The Copyright law was made to encourage people to recreate existing materials.

Walt Disney was also a mash-up artist aka copyrighting

-> culture always builds on the past
-> the past always tries to control the future
-> our future is becoming less free
-> to build free societies you must limit the

"American copyright law regulates any creative work produced after 1923, for the maximum term of life plus seventy years..." - Lessig, L, 2008,

Remix

, Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publication plc, London

"We come from a tradition of "free culture" - not "free" as in "free beer" (to borrow a phrase from the founder of the free software movement - Richard M. Stallman,

free software, free societies 57,

but "free" as in

"free speech," "free markets," "free trade," "free enterprise," "free will," and "free elections." A free culture supports and protects creators and innovators." - Lessig, L,

Free Culture - the nature and future of creativity,

Penguin Books.

I found these images randomly whilst browsing around, You can see that they have used normal daily materials and turned them into something else, without any copyright infringement.

I found this magazine cover with Psy, but what interested me was that his face was painted in 'Kiss' (the band) make-up, So the cover designer/photographer remixed Psy and Kiss.

I can't really tell why this caught my attention, but it just looked very interesting as a room parting. And the repeated 'Noir' also makes you think you will be walking into a classical area, but that wasn't the case.

This statue was very funny, it was put up in a candy store during Halloween, I believe the purpose of the statue was to shop that it is an American store and that Halloween is coming up. So they remixed The Statue of Liberty and Ghost Face (from the scream movies).

I was out in Central London, Piccadilly Circus. And as I walked to the stairs in the M&M world store, I realized that the statue on the bottom floor is a replica of The Beatles Abbey Road photo, I then thought of doing some research and found that there plenty of more remixed versions of this image. These are some of the images I was able to find