Clear Language, Clear Mind

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.

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?

You be the judge by watching RiP: A remix manifesto.

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“The Future of Copyright”, Rasmus Fleischer

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A concise and good explanation of the current copyright situation and it’s history.

CV: “Rasmus Fleischer is a Swedish historian, writer, and musician. He is currently a Ph.D. student at the Institute of Contemporary History at Södertörn University College, Stockholm. In 2003, he helped to found the Piratbyrån, or Piracy Bureau, an organization opposed to copyright laws for digital media. He is a frequent lecturer on what he calls the impending “collapse of copyright.”.

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“The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution.”, Peter Biddle, Paul England, Marcus Peinado und Bryan Willman

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Abstract: “We investigate the darknet ñ a collection of networks and technologies
used to share digital content.  The darknet is not a separate physical
network but an application and protocol layer riding on existing
networks.  Examples of darknets are peer-to-peer file sharing, CD and
DVD copying, and key or password sharing on email and newsgroups.
The last few years have seen vast increases in the darknetís
aggregate bandwidth, reliability, usability, size of shared library, and
availability of search engines.  In this paper we categorize and analyze
existing and future darknets, from both the technical and legal
perspectives.  We speculate that there will be short-term impediments
to the effectiveness of the darknet as a distribution mechanism, but
ultimately the darknet-genie will not be put back into the bottle.  In view
of this hypothesis, we examine the relevance of content protection and
content distribution architectures.”

Read this great article about copyright, the film industry and the usual stuff.

Hvis man interesserer sig for copyrightproblemet så bør man læse denne artikel. Man bør generelt læse den, da det er en meget god artikel om emnet.

http://torrentfreak.com/the-war-on-sharing-why-the-fsf-cares-about-riaa-lawsuits-090513/