Jun 2, 2009
Rip…remix
I went to a screening of the documentary ‘Rip: A Remix Manifesto‘ last night which included a public panel discussion afterwards.
From the cinema website:
Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor 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. The film is about the scope of copyright laws and the extent to which those copyright laws are now restricting creative endeavour and enterprise. The film follows icon “Girl Talk”, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power or the Pied Piper of piracy?
The panel was moderated by the Shaun Miller an entertainment lawyer in the Media Department at Marshalls & Dent Lawyers. The speakers where the Musician Josh Abrahams and copyright lawyer Colin Golvan SC who has published a book titled Copyright Law and Practice. Shaun has lectured on copyright in a course I teach at RMIT.
More later on the discussion…