Just saw the film, Rip, last week­end. The movie explores new cre­ative modes of music-making (and other art forms) enabled by present day tech­nolo­gies and cul­tural inter­ests. It also uses this path into the cre­ative world to cover most of the present day strug­gles with copy­right and notions of own­er­ship of “intel­lec­tual prop­erty.” Although Rip addresses a wide-range of top­ics and ground, one of the points it dri­ves home bet­ter than any­thing is the notion of remix­ing and mashups as art-form (or Read more […]