Re:Mix Culture

Remix culture is a term employed by Lawrence Lessig to describe a society which allows and encourages derivative works. Such a culture would be, by default, permissive of efforts to improve upon, change, integrate, or otherwise remix the work of copyright holders. Lessig presents this as a desirable ideal and argues, among other things, that the health, progress, and wealth creation of a culture is fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process.

Sampling in musicmaking is a prime example of reuse, and hip-hop culture’s implicit acceptance of the practice makes it a remix culture.

This term is often contrasted with permission culture.

Lessig is now using the term ‘Read/Write Culture’ to refer to broadly the same thing and ‘Read Only Culture’ to refer to a permission based culture. He has been queried as to his reliance on a binary opposite rather than a spectrum of permissions but this he explains is his way to broadcast this message to a mainstream audience.

Free Culture (book) by Lawrence Lessig (Free Download)

Video Resources

• Remix Culture Symposium: Panel 1: Creative Commons Music
• Remix Culture Symposium: Panel 2: Legal, Licensing and CC
• Remix Culture Symposium: Panel 3: Creativity and the Commons

Word up to Wikipedia for the Cultural enlightenment above. :)

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Rock The Bells

From the Rage Against the Machine site… Doesn’t this make you wish you were there??? I just hope they come out with a new CD!

Breaking News 03/27/07:
North America’s critically acclaimed hip hop festival ‘ROCK THE BELLS’ announces full talent line-up

It turns out Rage
Against the Machine will play more than one show after all–the seminal
L.A. band will join the Wu-Tang Clan for three shows under the banner
of Rock the Bells, the acclaimed hip-hop festival that kicks off in New
York on July 28 and hits Southern California on Aug. 11.

Cypress Hill, The Roots, Mos Def, Epmd, Mf Doom and many more join headliners Rage Against The Machine and The Wu-Tang Clan with special guest Public Enemy-Celebrating 20 Years of Revolution & Rhyme

Festival expands with 15 additional summer tour dates headlined by the Wu-tang Clan and NaS

Technorati Tags: Rage Against The Machine, RATM, Rock the Bells, Wu-tang Clan, The Roots, Mos Def, MF Doom, Public Enemy, New York, California

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