Reading Response 3 – Watching RiP!: A Remix Manifesto

A topic suggested in this 2008 documentary is that large corporations have too much control over creative content, restricting how people can use and share media. This is prevalent to this day, even stronger in my opinion, with how social media platforms are quick to copyright strike and take down content. For example, YouTubers have to be strict on what music they can include in their videos, vlogger’s especially have a more challenging time as songs that are playing in the background of a coffee shop they’re in could get their video taken down. While this is an inconvenience to work around, this gives smaller artists the spotlight to provide copyright free songs and beats that are safe for YouTube. Another point in the remix manifesto is that culture builds on the past. This means to me that all current and future works will have taken inspiration from the past. We see this in the trends of fashion and style where something 10-20 years ago is getting popular again. Artists have taken beats and snippets of old songs and remixed them into their own work adding their own personal flare to it.

Reading Response 3 – Watching RiP!: A Remix Manifesto