This is Lawrence Lessig’s Ted Talk about remix as a cultural right.

A classic remix.

The following two videos quote source footage from Jeremiah Wright’s sermons with very different intentions.

Entitled Reverend Wright, Grandpa Simpson: Separated at Birth? This video remixes Rev. Wright’s sermon with source footage from the Simpsons.

Teaching artist and FURI facilitator, Jonathan McIntosh has just completed his new est political remix. Watch it now!

In a recent ruling, judge Sidney Stein stated that the filmmakers of Expelled, a film supporting intelligent design, were likely to win a fair use claim if Yoko Ono persued her suit against them. The filmmakers used a 15 second clip of John Lennon’s song “Imagine” to make a statement on religion in our culture—read the Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog entry on the subject. Also, here’s AJ Schnack’s concise summary: http://edendale.typepad.com/weblog/2008/06/expelled-fights.html

FURI [pronounced fury] is a two week digital media workshop for socially-conscious Chicago teens

WHEN: July 7th-July 18th 2008 (Monday-Friday 11:00-4:00)
WHERE: CHICAGO FILMMAKERS – 5243 N. Clark, Chicago

IN FURI YOUTH PARTICIPANTS WILL:

• Create several remixes and mashups that are critical or satirical works of art focusing on political, social, and cultural issues, from a youth perspective
• Learn to use both on-line and offline editing and remix tools such as Kaltura, Adobe Premiere, and Final Cut Pro.
• Learn how to download or appropriate media from television and the web, including the Creative Commons and Remix America
• Work with various styles of remix including music video, movie trailer, short film, tv commercial, news and artistic
• Learn how to “quote copyrighted material” as Fair Use in order to reclaim First Amendment and Fee Speech rights
• Learn how to advocate for flexible and fair copyright laws, network neutrality and other public policies that impact your cultural rights
• Meet, converse and collaborate with a diverse group of socially-active youth from all over Chicago
• Reach and impact audiences in the hundreds, if not thousands, including: teachers, students, education administrators, scholars, activists, artists and journalists through conferences, web distributions and speaking tours. Some travel to cities such as DC, NY, LA, Boston and San Francisco may be involved.!