the remix and the exquisite corpse

clipped from www.networkedcollab.org The whole notion of the remix as it relates to participation is very post-modern and very American. “The older American folk culture was built on borrowings from folk culture; the new convergence culture will be built on borrowings from various media conglomerates” (Convergence, 137).� Like Umberto Eco comments, it’s all been done before: “…no film can be experienced with fresh eyes; all are read against other movies.� In such a world ‘cult has become the normal way of enjoying movies’” (Convergence, 98).��

File Sharing & Meaning

clipped from copyriot.se A kopimist Walpurgis ritual, and a letter from Bill Drummond File-sharing has a potential to create meaning, community and context – a bigger potential than most other forms of reproduction. We want to keep talking about how that potential can be realized in the best manner possible, how cultural circulation can be organized and how the unleashed forces of the open archives can be used for more than stacking a pile of objects we care less and less about. /…/ The files are already downloaded. The files are already uploaded. They’ve been going up and down and in and out in abundance. Instead of discussion how the forces of winter are going to sell snow to Eskimos, we want to talk about how to extract meaning from this abundance.

Copyriot Pt.2

clipped from copyriot.se MRM/metaphoric mode: Defining the network. Here is one very short history of copyright, roughly periodized as three layers of design: Between 1800 and 1950, roughly speaking, copying and use was two physically separated functions. Printing presses were relatively few, and was not needed in order to read the books or perform the scores which were printed. After the world wars, enforcement became more complicated as the means of reproduction entered the private homes. New machines, like the tape recorder, integrated both copying and use in one device. But still, these were two separate functions: You could listen to a tape without producing a new copy of it. Not so with the digital. To use digital information always means to copy it.

Copyriot Pt.1

clipped from copyriot.se Copyriot Multiplication can produce powerful numbers clipped from copyriot.se DRM was a failed attempt to implement social relations technologically, in a very inflexible, black-and-white way: Either you can make a copy, or you can’t. What’s left when the copyright industries one after one are giving up that approach, are a whole set of more subtle ways of enforcing copyright on a technological level: as standards and protocols, as traffic shaping and graphical user interfaces, as the bundling of bugs with features. Rather than saying a straight yes or no, these methods operate as an universal modulation (to use a term employed by Deleuze in his discussion of the “societies of control”).

Steal This Film II

clipped from stealthisfilm.com THE OIL OF THE 21ST CENTURY ‘Intellectual property’, said Mark Getty, ‘is the oil of the twenty first century’. Getty is chairman of Getty Images and one of the world’s largest intellectual proprietors. His comment offers a unique perspective on the conflicts evolving around information as it penetrates and shapes every aspects of our lives — from nutrition to medicine, from markets to civil liberties.