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Spring 2013 Digital Arts / Mixed-Media Studio:
Please watch this entire documentary film online:
RiP! A Remix Manifesto (it's about 86 minutes)
http://films.nfb.ca/rip-a-remix-manifesto/

Directed by Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor, RiP explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.
http://ripremix.com/

Take notes on what you find most revealing or surprising about the contemporary practice of remix artists. How does the video relate to recent internet blackout/protest and SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) legislation?

Prepare your comments (about 150 words) and have them ready to post to the blog here by MONDAY March 11.

Featuring:
Yancey Strickler, Co-Founder of Kickstarter
Lawrence Lessig, Co-Founder of Creative Commons
Ciel Hunter, Creative Director of Creators Project
Julia Kaganskiy, Editor of Creators Project

For our continuing discussion of copyright + open source culture:

ALSO VIEW University of Minnesota Guidelines on Copyright:
http://libguides.d.umn.edu/content.php?hs=a&pid=97624

Understanding Fair Use:
Fair use is an important part of copyright law that provides some flexibility for users and new creators. At its core, fair use ensures that there are some kinds of uses that do not require permission or payment. But there are no easy rules for fair use - if you want to take advantage of its flexibility, you have to understand its complexities!

Read more about these Four Statutory Factors...
1. Purpose and Character of the Use
2. Nature of the Original Work
3. Amount and Substantiality of the Portion Used
4. Effect of the Use on the Potential Market For or Value Of the Source Work

and The "Fifth Factor" - Transformative Use
http://www.lib.umn.edu/copyright/fairuse

The world has experienced an explosion of openness. From individual
artists opening their creations for input from others, to governments
requiring publicly funded works be available to the public, both the spirit
and practice of sharing is gaining momentum and producing results.
Creative Commons began providing licenses for the open sharing of
content only a decade ago. Now more than 400 million CC-licensed works
are available on the Internet, from music and photos, to research !ndings
and entire college courses. Creative Commons created the legal and
technical infrastructure that allows e"ective sharing of knowledge, art and
data by individuals, organizations and governments. More importantly,
millions of creators took advantage of that infrastructure to share work
that enriches the global commons for all humanity.

http://thepowerofopen.org/

http://thepowerofopen.org/assets/pdfs/tpoo_eng.pdf

Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge
For over a decade, we have spent millions of hours building the largest encyclopedia in human history. Right now, the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open Internet. For 24 hours, to raise awareness, we are blacking out Wikipedia.
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/SOPA/Blackoutpage

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/01/2012117154358351284.html

more great resources here:
http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/artsproject/

Read the book:
http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/zoomcomic.html

Here is a video that explains why the Code for Fair Use in Online Video got created, and how the Code can help you create online videos that employ fair use of copyrighted material:

from http://www.fairusetube.org/

Also helpful:
What is Fair Use?

Fair Use Cases

©2005-2009 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. With the exception of the Nolo Copyright and Fair Use Overview, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.

open for discussion... !

full movie is viewable for free on the internet
http://www.sitasingstheblues.com