Remix Culture Is About The Culture As Much As The Remix
from the killing-culture dept
Over the weekend, I finally got to watch the film Copyright Criminals (after having seen clips and a discussion about the film at the Fair Use Film Screening put on by Public Knowledge back in January). I have to admit, the film was pretty depressing. While it may seem like I pick on lawyers a fair amount, I actually tend to like most lawyers I meet -- but I don't know quite how they did it, but every lawyer who showed up in that film just seemed to ooze smarmy. They appeared to smirk through their interviews, as if they knew what they were saying was ridiculous, and the whole thing was all about getting as much money as possible, rather than having anything to do with fairness or creating art. Meanwhile, the actual content creators -- they seemed pretty much defeated. They had worked on amazingly innovative and cool projects that had nothing to do with "copying", and everything to do with creating beautiful new works of art that people loved. And they got sued and shut down over and over again. It's a shame. But not just because of the art that wasn't created, but the potential to connect culturally through it.This is a point that often gets overlooked in these discussions -- that art is about more than the creator. We've tangentially discussed this idea in the past, but Julian Sanchez put together a little video last week that does a nice job demonstrating this in about eight minutes:
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Re: Re: Re: Moh Oh Oh Ron.
You say this EVERY time as if its everyone ELSE'S FAULT for not "getting it." Since almost NO one seems to get your points, perhaps you should MAKE BETTER POINTS. The problem, it would seem, is you.
"I will say that the land under many of the houses in San Fran, you know, "dirt" pretty much turned to water during the last earthquake. I have a feeling that is just out of your trolling grasp."
Wow do you even UNDERSTAND the processes that cause that sort of situation? Its not like the dirt just suddenly released some massive amount of PENT UP WATER or something. The water doesnt come FROM the dirt. The quake shakes so hard the dirt essentially loses cohesion (that means, it doesnt stick together anymore and becomes porus (that means things pass through it)) and the water MOVES THROUGH this with less resistance, saturating the area. The water comes from SOMEWHERE ELSE. It didnt "turn" to water.
You are incredibly stupid, really.
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