Culture Jamming or a Culture Jammed?: 'RiP! - A Remix Manifesto'
2009; Issue: 54 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1449-857X
Autores Tópico(s)Music History and Culture
ResumoThe article discusses the documentary RiP!: A Remix Manifesto (Brett Gaylor, 2009), which attempts to investigate the evolution and fairness of copyright in the digital age. The documentary starts with an investigation of Gaylor's favourite musical artist, Girl Talk, aka Gregg Gillis. By day Gillis is a biomedical engineer, but by night he swaps his lab coat for street clothes and performs at clubs. There's no problem with that - plenty of musicians have day jobs. The problem here is that Girl Talk's music is almost entirely made up of re-cut and reordered samples of other artists' music. Girl Talk has not sought permission to use these samples, nor has he paid any royalties for their use, and this means he is breaking copyright law. As Gaylor states in the opening narration, 'The fact that the law makes my favourite artist a criminal - well, that's exactly why I need to make this film.' The four points of a remixer's manifesto for the new media generation are highlighted: 1. Culture always builds on the past. 2. The past always tries to control the future. 3. Our future is becoming less free. 4. To build free societies you must limit the control of the past.
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