I’m guessing he’s claiming “fair use” for all those copyrighted images and music.

Mark

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  02/02  at  08:59 PM

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It’s a pretty textbook example of fair use, and he’s posted on Vimeo which tends to respect that sort of thing, rather than Youtube which takes down anything in response to a DMCA request. Led Zepp and Star Wars are fairly easy targets, given the LZ were (as the video points out) notorious plagiarists.

The issue I’d have is that in order to make his point he mixes up the word remix with sampling. You don’t remix a chic song by using the bassline in a different composition, you remix the new song by adding a sampled bassline to it. Remixing is the remodifying of your own song (or that song on someone else’s behalf. Therefore a cover, or a rip off is a fundamentally different to a remix.

If you simply expand the definition so that remix can means covers and rip-offs, surely the term becomes meaningless. All he’s really done is taken a fundamental and long standing principle of culture, in fact almost it’s defining characteristic, that we all share and reproduce knowledge in its various forms, and labelled that “remixing”.

Posted by Dylan Pank  on  02/02  at  11:13 PM

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