RiP!: A Remix Manifesto

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. We couldn’t argue more that copyrights issue is more and more complicated at this digital era of information. We could easily download a song, a video, anything in the internet and then we could remix it, remake it, anything you want. But is it legal to to those things? In this film you would know about public domain, creative commons, and how Walt Disney Company not allowing kids to see Mickey Mouse at their Kindergarten’s wall.

Biomedical engineer turned live-performance sensation Girl Talk, has received immense commercial and critical success for his mind-blowing sample-based music. Utilizing technical expertise and a ferocious creative streak, Girl Talk repositions popular music to create a wild and edgy dialogue between artists from all genres and eras. But are his practices legal? Do his methods of frenetic appropriation embrace collaboration in its purest sense? Or are they infractions of creative integrity and violations of copyright? These questions will be answered by Lawrence Lessig, a well known lawyer who is concern about copyrights and stuff. (Tio)