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This google commercial is pretty cool cause it highlights how sites are making it easier for people to collaborate, specifically for music here. Participatory culture?  Also, it's just funny and makes you think about how songs are constructed.

After I stumbled upon the iconic Obama "Hope" poster, I remembered that back in 2009, artist Shepard Fairey was being sued by the owner of the original photograph (AP). Back then I was not very interested in copyright issues, so I never checked what happened with this case. It's interesting and kind of fair that AP and Shepard settled on working together, sharing the rights, and collaborating on other images+photographs. Even though Shepard transformed a "stolen" photograph, his "theft" actually put the original photo on the map. I consider it to be a fair solution for a fair use case.

interesting...outsourcing as "sharing...."

i bought this book a couple years ago but haven't read it yet... i could get it over fall break and bring it in

RiP! A Remix Manifesto (2009): 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. KINDA LONG BUT COOL.

It says its from 2003 but I have a hard time believing that. This is an unintentionally hilarious, supremely 80's documentary about collaboration in the music industry. Its pre-mainstream remix, but I still think it could be relevant.

open collaborative production company.

"Open-source movie production is either an open call system in which a changing crew and cast collaborate in movie production, a system in which the end result is made available for re-use by others or in which exclusively open-source products are used in the production. "

Collaborative film production group set up by Brett Gaylor. The site was shut down in 2010...

I suppose I am posting this because I've been thinking about how artist can become popular through soundtracks to shows and movies. The band Flying Lotus album is played throughout this short film - which I think is really cool - musicians and film makers collaborating.  

My tumblr account. Not exactly intended as a work of art, but can been seen as an example of one of the ways I form an identity in the modern age through the collaboration of other's art available to me in the new delivery systems.

If this was a reality businesses wouldn't have a choice if they want to be competitive they'd have to share. It's maximum efficiency