copyLEFT: The Right About Cultural Freedom and The Wrong About Theft
RIP: A Remix Manifesto
This documentary is the best summary of how wrong copyright, the RIAA, MPIAA, Disney, and lots of other too powerful organizations have got it all wrong. The clip above shows just a couple examples of the illusion of original ideas in music and how groups like our beloved Rolling Stones are a bunch of scam artists that now want to protect something they stole in the first place. Some of us have known this for a long time but didn’t much mind until society started calling us thieves. Ironic since our society is based on thievery. This is an important film, one that people are trying to shut down on YouTube and anywhere else but in reality it will always survive. Hopefully it’s seen by many and remixed by more. That can be done here:
And as Lars Ulrich from Metallica so eloquently puts it: “It’s about control.” See part 3
And if you love Disney, you’ll love this little history of their creativity.
A sample of the creativity attempting to be squashed…
And a proponent from the Ivory Tower….
October 27th, 2009 at 10:09 am
Great Stuff … and right to the heart of the debate. Interesting how all the stuff you and I and Troxler talked about, scorned and predicted in the past, has come into debate … what is nice to know, and what the internet provides, is the ‘you are not alone’ reality … it did seem that I was in a silo when I talked about this stuff with other, less interested folks years ago and the feeling of isolation was at times over powering. I remember a friend thanking me in like 1992 or something when I took him to the Silk City diner to listen to old Blues records spun by the guy from XPN … he was confronted with whole ‘Zeppelin is not really God’ thing immediately and quickly understood and respected the reality. Of course it wasn’t long after that he forgot about the whole thing and then thought that HE took me there … though he couldn’t find the diner with a homing device. It doesn’t kill brain cells it just mixes them up so they say. Good Times.