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Afternoon Delight: Embrace the Remix


by Stephen Becker 15 Aug 2012 1:00 PM

Kirby Ferguson, creator of Everything is a Remix, continues his quest to prove to us that nothing is original in this TED Talk.

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Afternoon Delight is a daily diversion for when you’re just back from lunch, but not quite ready to get back to work. Check back weekdays at 1 p.m. for another one.

Kirby Ferguson, creator of Everything is a Remix, continues his quest to prove to us that nothing is original in this TED Talk.

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About Stephen Becker

Stephen Becker produces the shows Think and Anything You Ever Wanted to Know for KERA. As part of the Art&Seek team, Stephen produces radio and digital stories, along with the podcast "The Big Screen," with Chris Vognar, movie critic of The Dallas Morning News. View more about Stephen Becker.

COMMENTS

  • This is a powerful way to reframe the creation of seemingly new works and and interesting way to look at copying and stealing. He does not seem to address the issues of copyright infringement and really opens up a questioning of “intellectual property.” So if Apple “stole” touch screen technology, what about the fellow who demonstrated it a year earlier at a TED talk? What about the developer of it several years before that TED talk? What about Chinese “entrepreneurs” stealing , copying and selling Hollywood films the week after they are released? George Harrison was fined for stealling the 60’s pop tune “He’s So Fine” and turning it into “My Sweet Lord.” Should the writer of the 60’s tune receive anything from George? -or was it simply a new thing created on the foundation of the old?

  • This is a powerful way to reframe the creation of seemingly new works and and interesting way to look at copying and stealing. He does not seem to address the issues of copyright infringement and really opens up a questioning of “intellectual property.” So if Apple “stole” touch screen technology, what about the fellow who demonstrated it a year earlier at a TED talk? What about the developer of it several years before that TED talk? What about Chinese “entrepreneurs” stealing , copying and selling Hollywood films the week after they are released? George Harrison was fined for stealling the 60’s pop tune “He’s So Fine” and turning it into “My Sweet Lord.” Should the writer of the 60’s tune receive anything from George? -or was it simply a new thing created on the foundation of the old?