WK 10.2 Reading Remix Culture - Hanane Ben Abdeslam

The remix culture is also known as read-write culture, this is known as a society that allows and encourages derivative works by combining or editing existing materials to produce a new creative work or product. A remix culture would be, by default, permissive of efforts to improve upon, change, integrate, or otherwise remix the work of copyright holders. While combining elements has always been a common practice of artists of all domains throughout human history, the growth of exclusive copyright restrictions in the last several decades limits this practice more and more by the legal chilling effect. Furthermore, the Creative Commons where invented in 2001 by Lessig, which released licenses as tools to enable remix culture again, as remixing is legally prevented by the default exclusive copyright regime applied currently on intellectual property. The remix culture for cultural works is related to and inspired by the earlier free and open-source software for software movement, which encourages the reuse and remixing of software works. Moreover, in the usual media culture, the culture is consumed more or less passively. The information or product is provided by a professional source, the content industry, that possesses an authority on that particular product/information. There is a one-way flow only of creative content and ideas due to a clear role separation between content producer and content consumer. For remix culture to survive, it must be shared and created by others. This is where participatory culture comes into play, because consumers start participating by becoming contributors, especially the many teens growing up with these media cultures.

What I find interesting is that remix culture is all intellectual property and is influenced by other pieces of work. 

Can you name other platforms where they use remix cultures or copyright?

Hanane Ben Abdeslam