week10: read Remix culture --LAOXINYI

 1）Summary

Remix Culture, also known as "Read-Write Culture", refers to a cultural atmosphere that encourages the combination, adaptation and re-creation of existing content in creation. Unlike the traditional "read-only, passive acceptance" culture, Remix is ​​more like an interactive expression: you can take a work, add some ingredients, change the taste, and tell your own version.

This culture has its prototype in human history. Whether it is folk tales, oral poetry, or cooking and religious texts, they have all undergone generations of "reprocessing". It's just that after entering the digital age, the tools have become more accessible. For example, we can now easily use Photoshop to modify pictures, use TikTok to dub, and use GitHub to fork projects. Remix has become the "daily creation method" for most people.

But at the same time, copyright laws have become more stringent. On the one hand, it protects the rights of original creators, and on the other hand, it also brings the voice of "limited innovation". Therefore, Lessig launched the Creative Commons movement, providing creators with the option of "partially retaining copyright" to make Remix possible again.


2）Interesting Point

The most interesting thing is that Remix has never been a "new thing in the Internet age", but an old tradition of human culture.

For example, the story collection of India's "Panchatantra" has been "translated + localized + adapted" more than 200 times since the 3rd century BC, and its versions are spread across more than 50 languages. Isn't that the ancient "cultural remix"?

For example, John Philip Sousa worried in 1906 that "phonographs would destroy American music culture" because everyone only listened to "canned music" and no longer gathered together to sing - this is actually an early manifestation of "moving from a reading and writing culture to a reading-only culture". Compare it with the current secondary creation videos, cover songs, and film and television editing, you will find that Remix is ​​a collective resurgence of our "creative rights".


3）Discussion

Is Remix the grave of innovation or the starting point?

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