
I have been on a remixing !KICK!! lately. Desperate to find a new project, I remembered that Trent Reznor had put up stems of a bunch of his tracks for users to remix and upload back to the site. It's remix.nin.com if you are interested. I decided to start a remix using Capital G and the beats from a Birdman track called Money To Blow. I think it turned out ok: Nine Inch Nails - Capital Geezy (Jaizer Got Money To Blow Remix) [...]

Don't worry. You're not the only one confused by the landscape of laws surrounding sampling, DRM, remixing and similar music/new media issues. Thankfully, web activist Brett Gaylor will be screening his recent film RiP: A Remix Manifesto at the Mezzanine tomorrow night. The film features hot-topic performer Girl Talk and attempts to demystify and explore current copyright and intellectual property law issues. Girl Talk is the prime subject for the film. The man behind the moniker, Greg Gillis, is a pioneer in [...]
Yikes. So, the list of DVD releases today is…well, even thinner than last week (Uwe Boll? Another Street Fighter movie?? And the Jonas Bros???). But I dug in and found three which will make it into my player at some point... read more
The 40th annual Nashville Film Festival draws ever closer. One of the films I got to check out was RiP: A Remix Manifesto, which (perhaps amazingly) was funded in part by the Canadian government. He... Continue reading "Nashville Film Festival: RiP: A Remix Manifesto" >

Pour ceux qui aimeraient en savoir plus un peu sur les copyrights, les samples... en fait, sur un peu n'importe quoi qui gravitent autour de ce sujet qui fait les manchettes depuis plusieurs années, je vous recommande fortement de jeter un oeil au documentaire de Brett Gaylor: RiP! A Remix Manifesto. Le documentariste a choisi comme sujet, un artiste qui se retrouve au centre des plus récentes contreverses a ce sujet: Girl Talk. Vous pouvez visionnez le trailer ici: [...]

Welcome the the RIP series..... Since I'm now 30 and all there is to look forward to is death and taxes, or maybe that's not how the saying going...... I'm not so good with the sayings and the spellings.... Keeping with the RIP theme, Dr † Wrex highly recommeds you see: Time to do the Share Bear Stare!!!! Wicked doc, on downloading and copy right! Bombs away! Here's looking at 100 tracks in 100 hours! Step your game up DMCA! [...]

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