I wasn’t sure what I would uncover when I typed used Creative Commons to search for results related to “poetry,” especially on platforms like feature primarily images or videos rather than written texts, and I was intrigued and in some cases surprised by the results. The first place I looked was Flickr, where I found the expected…
6: Creative Commons Pros and Cons
Creative Commons is an organization dedicated to allowing people to freely share their creative works with the public in order to be shared and built upon. In response to copyright, which says that “all rights [are] reserved” in a creative work, Creative Commons’ goal is to allow increased sharing through having only “some rights reserved”…
Creative Commons & GoT
I never heard about Creative Commons, and I wanted to learn more about it before I dove into the search bar. On the about page, it says, “Creative Commons’ “CC Search” project will develop and release an open online search and re-use tool that will allow high-quality content from the commons to surface in a…
6) Creative Commons Media Search
Creative Commons “helps you legally share your knowledge and creativity to build a more equitable, accessible, and innovative world” (Creative Commons). When I first opened the site using the link on the Course calendar, I was brought to a search screen. However, I didn’t necessarily know what to search for. Should I search for something…
5: AMVs as Remixes
As a fan of animation, I am familiar with the genre of video known as AMVs. The acronym stands for Animated Music Video, though sometimes it’s used in the context of live-action shows and movies as well. Recently, the term has expanded even more to include work that has been animated by the editor themselves,…
5) MP3 Mashups
http://nateural.tumblr.com/post/153015506460/kasnas-citra-lila-3365-you-were-one-inch This mash-up of MGMT’s 2007 song “Kids” with Passion Pit’s 2009 “Sleepyhead” is a popular form on remix on the internet, in which creators merge two already existing songs into one MP3, often by layering the vocal track from one song over the instrumental track of another. This particular MP3 was shared on Tumblr by an anonymous user—the link…
5: Copyright laws? Don’t Want None.
For todays blog post I will be discussing remix in the style of modern hip hop music more specifically Nicki Minaj’s song Anaconda. Anaconda was released back in 2014 and remixes components from the infamous song by Sir Mix-A-lot Baby got back while still adding her own remix to it. As soon as the soon begins…
Copyright: A War on Ekphrasticism?
I regret heavily the fact that I waiting so long to write this blog post, because it means that what I wanted to write about was stolen by Christina Joell; and for copyright reasons, I didn’t want to remix her blog post. See what I did there? That said, Todrick Hall is awesome and I…
5: The Fails and Wins of Copyright via “Mr. West”
I love the range of examples given in the readings for what remix has come tomean and could come to mean in the future. Certainly, before this reading, I had only really thought of it in the context of music, though I had definitely associated it with copyright issues, which still seem to be a…
5. Trans media Remixes
The Walking Dead is an incredibly popular text, transcending many different generations and piquing the interests of many current television junkies. The interesting thing about The Walking Dead is that, while the TV show is arguably the most popular form of the text, it actually began as a comic book. The television show is simply an…