“Immerse yourself in the energetic, innovative and potentially illegal world of mash-up media with RiP: A remix manifesto. Let web activist Brett Gaylor and musician Greg Gillis, better known as Girl Talk, serve as your digital tour guides on a probing investigation into how culture builds upon culture in the information age.”
Just bought RiP: A remix manifesto from B-Side. Pretty good documentary with some great video work. Really launches into a gray area that our country and people morally struggle with, “Is the borrowing of data and other digital elements stealing?”. I won’t voice my opinion on the subject but I will say that music, art, or anything creative is commonly unoriginal. With the masses of people producing art and music in a culture’s lifetime, not often can somenoe say “I’m the only one who had this idea”. This aligns with my belief that in creative work, “some snowflakes are the same”, even if the idea wasn’t influenced by someone else, it just happens that minds think the same.
