remix

Remix refers to the practice of taking an existing work, and cutting, altering, and recombining it into something new. Digital media labs such as the LRC are critical sites for this new form of creative expression, as expertise in tools of media authorship becomes more common, and as the tools themselves become more powerful and easier to learn.

Creative Commons

The Creative Commons is a non-profit organization that provides us with the legal framework to share with each other works of music, art, text, video -- all forms of creative content. It is a flexible copyright schema, that rides on top of existing copyright law rather than replacing it. While copyright is all rights reserved, Creative Commons provides the ability to license a work under some rights reserved.

Pertaining to Remix Culture, there is no greater tool than the Share-Alike license. Share-alike means that a creative work may be remixed by others, so long as that resulting remix is itself licensed under the same terms (c.f. copyleft). Viral creativity. The LRC promotes this form of legal remix as a vital aspect of media literacy.

Public Domain

Another rich source of remix-friendly materials protected by law is the Public Domain, works whose copyright has expired, or works that are licensed without copyright restrictions. Learn more at The Center for the Public Domain, and Duke Law's Center for the Study of the Public Domain.