RiP! A Remix Manifesto

 

Brett Gaylor's favorite musician is called Girl Talk. Gaylor wants to make a film about Girl Talk, but discovers that, instead of turning him into a filmmaker, that will turn him into a criminal. Because what Girl Talk does isn't ordinary music: he does mash-ups, or songs purely made up from samples, altered and reordered, of other songs whose legal (which isn't the same as legitimate) proprietors run a battle against new technologies and the creative use of "their" ideas. So Gaylor spends si [...]

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