RiP!: A Remix Manifesto (2008)

Directed by

Brett Gaylor

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 20m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 26 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows the fight over copyright as digital tools let people remix media. It argues that sharing and reusing culture is natural and should be legal.

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What happens

RiP!: A Remix Manifesto is a 2008 open-source documentary film about "the changing concept of copyright" directed by Brett Gaylor. Created over a period of six years, the documentary film features the collaborative remix work of hundreds of people who have contributed to the Open Source Cinema website, helping to create the "world's first open source documentary" as Gaylor put it. The project's working title was Basement Tapes, (referring to the album of the same name) but it was renamed RiP!: A Remix Manifesto prior to theatrical release. Gaylor encourages more people to create their own remixes from this movie, using media available from the Open Source Cinema website, or other websites like YouTube, Flickr, Hulu, or MySpace. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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