Remix Culture
In RiP: A remix manifesto, 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.

Biomedical engineer turned live-performance sensation Girl Talk, has received immense commercial and critical success for his mind-blowing sample-based music. Utilizing technical expertise and a ferocious creative streak, Girl Talk repositions popular music to create a wild and edgy dialogue between artists from all genres and eras. But are his practices legal? Do his methods of frenetic appropriation embrace collaboration in its purest sense? Or are they infractions of creative integrity and violations of copyright?

Remix Music
Girl Talk Greg Gillis gained popularity for his unique ability to take seemingly disparate pieces of music and combines them in a way that is clever, interesting and listenable.

Why hasn't anyone sued him?
- He is seen as a hero to copyright reformers, if someone sued him it is likely Gillis would have some of the best copyright lawyers by his side defending him.

Gillis's Argument - He has transformed the copyrighted materials sufficiently that his work constitutes non infringing fair use is just too good.
Fair use allows people to make use of peoples copyright work without breaking law e.g Book review you can take quotes.


Cut Up Collective
Cut Up Collective are an anonymous collective of artists based in East London, who work in outdoor intervention, film and sound installation. Their work focuses largely on the potential for disruption inherent in the everyday and on pre-existing elements of play in the urban environment.

The video to the left shows two members of the Cut Up Collective taking apart a billboard by removing the advert from it, cutting up the whole thing into smaller pieces and going to another billboard and recreating a remixed image on top of the original.

The Cut Up Collectives incorporate collage, installation and film and they aim to create a potential creativity flow on the street where the remix has occurred.

Video Remix
These parodies consist of various excerpts from a not so well-known film titled Downfall, released in 2004, about the last days of Hitler and his inner circle before they all committed suicide. There are a few scenes that have been used for the remixes, but chose the most popular, which is also the longest excerpt remixed, of about 3:59. The footage presents Hitler being told by key members of his inner circle that Berlin is surrounded and that it is only a matter of time before the enemy reaches them in the city. Hitler is upset about the fact that he was not told the truth sooner and rants for quite sometime to eventually come to terms with his certain defeat.