Everything is a Remix (2010 Edition)
Everything is a Remix is produced by Kirby Ferguson, a New York-based filmmaker.
Ferguson examines modern attitudes toward intellectual property and how these attitudes rather counterintuitively stifle creativity rather than fostering it.
He illustrates the interconnectedness of our creations and how current laws and norms miss this essential truth.
"The hard truth is that most creations are worthless immediately. Most books, films, albums, computer applications, or whatever else are met with not just indifference but disuse.
They basically aren’t read, aren’t viewed, aren’t used. Of the lucky ones that find a modest audience, almost all of those fall into obscurity within a few decades.
Only a slim minority of works have commercial value after that and current copyright legislation is clearly written for this tiny group. Copyleft activists sometimes refer to this segment as the 'lottery winners'."
As the Roman poet said Nihil ex nihilo fit - nothing shall come of nothing. So obviously everything is a remix, if there were something completely original no one would recognise it!
If someones software is the same as yours and isnt challenged conceptually, I don't think it should be allowed but if there is a significant difference to it, I think it is fine.
There are in fact original ideas. There are also improvements to ideas. The US Patent and Trademark Office recognizes both.
How to distinguish plagiarism from a modified concept is much more difficult regarding Copyright.
Young people typically like free stuff because they don't have a ready or sufficient source of income to pay for the work or improvements to work by others, that they desire. Other age groups short on funds may be similar. Some of those with plenty of money to buy the work of others that they desire, may just be cheap and decide why pay if can get it for free.
Human Nature is to ECONOMIZE and not pay for things if you don't have to. While some humans recognize that those who develop things need to eat.
Follow the money or greed of those wanting the work of others for free. They are the new slave masters. This new breed of thieves don't even offer food and shelter to those they desire work without pay from.
They tried this concept in Russian farming. The masses or the elite benefiting from the work of the farmers, without commensurate pay. The store shelves went bare. When you eliminate the incentive to produce anything, there will be much less produced. Notions to the contrary are self serving greedy thieving gibberish.
However, intellectual property as well as the monetary system are human inventions or illusions if you like. You don't see any other creature using or respecting it.
As all other biological creature we have our birth rights to fulfil our basic needs with whatever nature has to offer. Money or ownership has nothing to do with it because it is just a system made up.
We are biological, not economical. Just seems like a lot of people have forgotten about that.
When it comes to our basic needs though, we need to stop confusing them with desires! Food, water, oxygen and shelter is all you need to live a happy life. Everything else is desires created by the market!
There is no way back once you've seen the truth!
We are the flawed copies of L.U.C.A. .The flaws appeared as a response to different types of environment. For me, as an architect, designer, the exchange of information is the only way to evolve professionally. The evolution can be good or bad . To avoid the bad direction, I need to have that x factor, that makes me good ( i hope that I am) in what I do. Sometimes trying to discover this X factor means a lot of work, that has to lead to financial compensation. I will share my way of thinking, my work up to the point where I will work for free just to see someone enjoying the fruits of my labor, but i will not sacrifice the well-being of my family.
I'm flawed, I know.
Even though i love your hard work & research behind these videos,you've ruined my opinion about Led Zeppelin.I dont care if they copied songs, atleast i love them for their selectivity
Have you heard of the book "Steal Like An Artist"?
Brilliant documentary. A must see!
Well put doc. Knowledge is inevitably disseminated through copying each other to some degree. Do I owe my mom a royalty payment every time I drive a car because she showed me how? As a musician, imitation is the highest form of flattery. And every bit of music I have ever heard was a harkening back to something. The earliest documented musical pieces were just prayers put to a melody, i.e. harkening back to divinity, or purity of spirit before sin, etc, etc, yada yada yada. The three elements or creation Kirby outlined are, for me, the only conceivable ways to create. It's how I learned to play drums, guitar, sing, and write. They are how I learned to chew with my mouth closed, sit up straight, speak clearly. Copy (my parents), Transform (their example into action), Combine (those experiences in my own mind to create my identity). It's what we do and we shouldn't have to pay for human nature.
This film promotes superficial, selfish, unethical, juvenile thinking.
Apparently it was made by a superficial, selfish, unethical, juvenile nitwit.
"I should be able to copy anything I want and try to make money off other peoples talent. Because I never bothered to get a good education, or learn a trade, or develop any useful or meaningful skills whatsoever, and never made any effort whatsoever to develop my own thinking, insight and intellectual skills and abilities, I should be able to mooch off the sweat, work, and intelligence of other people. And what's this word 'ethics' people keep speaking about -- what the hell does that mean anyway."
No new thing under the sun
Came across a fact document today, i thought i'd share it.
Abraham Lincoln was elected to congress in 1846
John F Kennedy was elected to congress in 1946
Lincoln was elected president in 1860
Kennedy was elected president in 1960
Both presidents were preoccupied by civil rights
Both presidents were killed a friday
Both presidents were shot in the head
Both presidents were killed by a southerner
Both presidents were succeeded by a southerner named Johnson
Andrew Johnson who succeeded Lincoln was born in 1808
Lyndon Johnson who succeeded Kennedy was born in 1908
John Wilkes Booth who assassinated Lincoln was born in 1839
Lee Harvey Oswald who assassinated Kennedy was born in 1939
Both men were known by their three names composed of 15 letters
Lincoln was killed in a theatre named Ford
Kennedy was killed in a Lincoln car made by Ford
Lincoln was assassinated in a theatre and his killer ran into a warehouse
Kennedy was assassinated from a warehouse and ran into a theatre
Booth and Oswald were killed before the court hearing
A week before Lincoln was killed he was in Monroe, Maryland
A week before Kennedy was killed he was with Marilyn Monroe
Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy
Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln
translated and not verified for accuracy.
Everything is a remix or a big coincidence
az
Even the word God has been in the remix for ever.
az
The greatest disappointment of growing old to me, has been the lack of anything really new. It's all been said and done a million times, and stolen or borrowed just as many. The cyclical patterns of life seems to have left out the one where we are all fair, honest, loving and concerned about anything but fame, fortune, power and the illusion that we alone are special and and above others. I guess, nothing will ever change. Same old song...same old dance. I wish I were young again and could feel the excitement of seeing or hearing something new.
Great. I can contine bring creative without fear of being sued because, they probably stole the ideas from someone else, too.
Everything is social and inter-related. Even an indivudual must do so within and through society. Now they are copyrighting nature simply for discovering it is there. Capitalism is a fraud.
RR
Thank you now I can point to this why I don't go to the movies. She always gets pissed when I walk out after and tell her which movies this scene was taken from. So at the end of the day..........life is bullshit Great ain't it :)
so true about movies these days...howls, no originality
remex is a latin word. it means rower, as in a boat.
Bravo, great doc!
For the record all comments on TDF are remixes.
I do not totally agree with the topic, just saw the first one. I have played in a band and without knowing it, you start writing riff's to later find out there in some songs you listen to yourself.
The (creative) mind works like this, you can never make something totally new you always use parts and bits you have picked up along the way and make something "new" from all of this. So a familiar bass line of a song is not a remixed thing, it’s more like an "inspiration"
A crap, later on the documentry it explains this :P
..doc about copying and sound on third part of the film was disabled because of copyrights :)
Fantastic documentary, watch and learn...
Copies are often done of French Films, ex: La femme Nikita and many others. Not long after the movie is made, the US remake it in English (of course) because people of the US* do not watch subtitled movie and there is no budget for dubbing such foreign films. ON the other hand the whole world gets to hear Angelina Jolie or Shawn Connery speak french with a borrowed voice.
*it is sometimes tricky not to use the popular term Americans, i consider all inhabitants of the Americas the right to be named Americans.
az
thank you for spotting the obvious.