This weeks lectorial focussed on the idea of the “remix” and how it relates to media theory. Not being experienced with remix culture, I found a lot of the lecture quite difficult to understand.

However, there was one subject that interested me, and that was in relation to the conflicting ideas of copyright between the pre and post-internet generation.

A documentary titled “RIP: A Remix Manifesto” focussed on this conflict, demonstrating conflicting opinions between the post-internet, pro-public domain mashup artist Greg Gillis (commonly known as Girl Talk), and a pre-internet copyright specialist.

Whilst the ideals of public domain for all artists in order to stem creativity was a nice one, it is arguably very unrealistic. The specialist argues this as well, where whilst Gillis argues that copy right law is harming his creativity, she instead stated  that ‘theres a gazillion copyright questions’ and remixes are ‘taking something it was and making it into something it isn’t’.

The ethics of remaking someones work to go against their original attention are really quite questionable, and I think thats why this idea is still debated to this day.