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by sparktography @Flickr A few thoughts on the sharing of culture. “Sharing Culture in the Internet Era” Fred Johnson Whitworth U Robinson Teaching Theater 3/15/10
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This is my piece of a longer Whitworth University panel discussion called "Media Unlimited: Technology, Ethics and Life at Whitworth in the 21st Century," 3/15/2010 @Whitworth University. The whole panel discussion + Q&A is available (and free) from iTunes U: http://tinyurl.com/29ro257 I quote from a NYT article on Harry Potter knock-offs, and that article is available here: http://tinyurl.com/35k2a22 I also quote from William Gibson's "Rocket Radio" essay, which is available here: http://tinyurl.com/35235h9
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A few thoughts on the sharing of culture.
“Sharing Culture in the Internet Era”
Fred JohnsonWhitworth URobinson Teaching Theater3/15/10
The Art of Remixed Culture
The Art of Remixed Culture
The Legal Jeopardy of Borrowers
Oral Tradition
Oral Tradition
I totally remixed your story,
dude.
& my version will sell.
I totally remixed your story,
dude.
& my version will sell.
Culture Still Circulates...
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BluesConsider the
Robert Johnson
BluesConsider the
Robert Johnson
Borrowed from Others
BluesConsider the
Robert Johnson
Borrowed from Others
Influences Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, The Animals, The Who, Lynard Skynyrd, Red Hot Chili
Peppers, and many more.
BluesConsider the
Robert Johnson
Borrowed from Others
Influences Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, The Animals, The Who, Lynard Skynyrd, Red Hot Chili
Peppers, and many more.
Sold soul?
Who owns the characters?
Fan Fiction
Who owns the characters?
Who owns Dumbledore?
Who owns the characters?
Who owns the characters?
Harry Potter and the Leopard-Walk-Up-to-Dragon
Harry becomes a fat, hairy dwarf after being caught in a “sour and sweet rain.”
Harry Potter and Platform Nine and Three-Quarters
...and the meteor you saw in the sky was my traipsing manteau.
“The Street finds its own uses for things--uses the
manufacturers never imagined.”
William F. Gibson“Rocket Radio” (1989)
Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow
Magic Underpants Gnome
http://peripheryarts.blogspot.com/2007/02/someone-to-watch-over-me.html
Magic Underpants Gnome
http://peripheryarts.blogspot.com/2007/02/someone-to-watch-over-me.html
Step 1: Sue downloaders, treat listeners as criminals, and cripple the technology by removing features.Step 2:Step 3: Everyone returns to mall.
Magic Underpants Gnome
http://peripheryarts.blogspot.com/2007/02/someone-to-watch-over-me.html
Step 1: Sue downloaders, treat listeners as criminals, and cripple the technology by removing features.Step 2:Step 3: Everyone returns to mall.
Fast forward makes me a sad, sad
gnome.
Lawrence Lessig
Stanford U.Law Prof.
Lawrence Lessig
Stanford U.Law Prof.
Bad law breeds disrespect for all law.
Argument: digital technology allows us to
revive amateur culture, user generated content,
“culture where people produce for the love of
what they’re doing and NOT for the money.”
Lessig
No more rock millionaires? OK.
No gas $, no tour, kiddo.
No more rock? Not OK.
No gas $, no tour, kiddo.
No more rock? Not OK.
And then no band.
Robert Johnson
Robert Johnson
Died Poor and Unrecognized
Are you simply circulating culture?
Or are you remixing thenext great performeror writer into oblivion?
Are you simply circulating culture?
Corey DoctorowLawrence LessigWilliam F. Gibson’s “Rocket Radio”
Edward FeltonJames SurowieckiClay ShirkyGoogle This: “A Fairy Use Tale”
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