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"Is burning a mix CD for a friend an expression of creativity or a criminal offence?"

Remix : Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy

With the ever increasing world of creative software developments, the ability to 'import/export' between compatible software. With software being developed to convert files so that they become compatible we now live in world where remix is no longer a specialty but an indigenous part of our creative cultures. The ability to download bytes from the World Wide Web, the myriad of tools available to re-express, re-interpret, super-impose, manipulate, invert the views of document whether it be mp3 mean that original creators are now collaborating intentionally and unintentionally with the users. Sometimes creating emerging industries and genres of artforms that brings with it issues of ownership, copyright and the once thought to be ideas used to protect the right of the author; are now being used by the powers that be to exert control. There are OpenSource factions that have risen up who make their creations freely available and there has arisen political, economic and legal disputes all designed to establish the role and right of the author.

If we use a company such as Google as an example who is also now the owner of YouTube, the creator of the Browser Chrome and the manufacturer of the Chromebook they now have cross market power to impose their values should they choose to exert them. In the recent political controversy in which a YouTube video showcasing the creative expression of some American Film Makers on the topic of Allah, the cyber realm had real world impacts. The disapproval of communities world wide retaliated with riots and acts of aggression resulting physical harm to many and the death of an American ambassador. Google showed their political capabilities by limiting the access and but more importantly censoring the video on YouTube showing their ability to affect change politically and socially. Furthermore they have come under pressure to change the way people can access copyrighted material, and the ongoing legal battles against sites such as IsoHunt and PirateBay mean that google have been forced to implement systems that restrict the flow of content through the use of torrents. Empowered by their increasing control of how we access content through their platforms concerns grow not only on the information we access but the control as to who is responsible for what we can and do access.

Suffice it to say that Google is no longer just an engine for searching but now as the digital nature of interaction changed it is now an empirical body with its own set of laws yet to be governed and administered on the world.

http://opensource.org/blog

Here we have the creative skills of Grandmaster Mash showing his skills on Mini Mash. He has created his own remix of the work of authored work but by 1 choosing how these songs react and relate to each other he creates a new narrative, a new experience and the performance factor of this video is itself an art. Is he not an author, even though is using technically other people work.

http://vimeo.com/25455527

ORIGINAL CONCEPTIONS TO FOSTER INNOVATION AND CREATIVTY
NOW USED TO REGULATE OWNERSHIP, USE AND DIRECT FUNDS
TIGHTLY WOUND IN LAW

COPYRIGHT VS COPYLEFT

CULTURALLY UNDERSTANDS THE SHARING OF KNOWLEDGE BREEDS CREATIVITY AND ONLY ASKS THAT IN USAGE THE SAME LAWS APPLY
ECONOMIC STRUCTURE IS BASED ON GROWTH
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