Rip! A Remix Manifesto is a documentary film by Brett Gaylor. It dives into the twisted and bewildering world of copyright law, and mashup master Girl Talk gets quite a bit of face time in the film. Check the film out in full over here:Rip! A Remix Manifesto
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With all the love we give mixtapes and remixes, you could understand how excited we got when we stumbled upon web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor's new documentary RIP: A Remix Manifesto . Andrew Kimmell and I watched this the other night and it is straight up awesome to watch. The basis of the argument is plotted around mash-up king "Girl Talk" and the copyrights he is breaking while creating his 'art.' Expect to learn about the fucked up laws that are in place in America, who is trying to stop it, and why you should care. You can [...]
I promise I'll post something besides videos later this afternoon. I'm about half-way through Rip: A Remix Manifesto and I'm really enjoying it. The film is available for a pay what you want download here and under its Creative Commons license is available for remixing. Rip focuses on American copyright law and spends a good period of time profiling and talking with Girl Talk and noted internet and copyright scholar Lawrence Lessig , champion of Creative Commons. Check this interview with [...]

This weekend I went to check out Rip! A Remix Manifesto , an excellent NFB documentary film about copyright and remix culture. And who should be featured in a prominent interview? Why Gregg Gillis aka Girl Talk! I had Gregg on the show way back when. Here is the interview show's definitive Girl Talk interview. Girl Talk on the interview show Tokyo Police Club "Cheer It On" (Trey Told Em Remix) Trey Told Em is the name for a collaboration with Gregg and Frank Musarra [...]
RiP: A remix manifesto is a documentary film about copyright and remix culture web activist and filmmaker by Brett Gaylor. At a time when... visit APC to read the full post, THX!!!

RiP: A Remix Manifesto is a fairly illegal documentary about copyright and remix culture whose filmmaker is and isn't, Brett Gaylor. Essentially, hundreds upon hundreds of copyrighted sound and picture bits have been mashed up to support and sometimes indulge the fancies of Gaylor's thesis: Remix culture should be embraced, not restricted. As an open source film, it has undergone (and continues to undergo) more than just revisions, but remixes of itself. These mashups are made possible and encouraged by Gaylor's posting of the source files online. The film was first dropped in Montreal at the Festival [...]