Reading on Digital Youth

Here's the Summary of Findings from the the Digital Youth Project to read for tomorrow, incase it wasn't clear when you went to the site.

New Media Douchebags

(via Swiss Miss)

Does this count as remix?

Shepard Fairey + Remix

There's been a lot of hype lately about the lawsuit between the AP and Shepard Fairey. Listen to the interview on NPR with both Fairey and Garcia (the photographer who took the original image) - Fairey makes some good points.

Apparently Lessig is speaking on a panel with Fairey tonight - I'll try to remember to check YouTube for it later.

Remix things to talk about today

What is a sharing economy?

What is a hybrid economy and what conditions are needed to make it work?

What are some examples?

How does hybrid economy help decriminalize youth?

What are the five shifts in the law that would radically improve its relation to RW creativity?

How does he suggest we reform ourselves (and why is it necessary to do so)?

Digital Liscensing Fees in Music

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/feb/25/eminem-universal-digital-royalties-lawsuit

Evidently Eminem is about to set a precedent on digital licensing fees as he's suing his record company over them. More interesting though is that Steve Jobs is on the witness list.

All it takes is one

As we were talking about in class with regard to copyright, digital media is replicated so easily and nearly perfectly. And thus, we have U2's new album screw-up turned piracy nightmare. Seems the record company got all worked up over how torrents of the new album were spreading like wildfire, but it was the label that fumbled the ball at the 5-yard line.

Still, as TechDirt’s Mike Masnick notes, there’s a lesson to be learned here. “At some point, folks in the music industry are going to (finally) recognize a rather simple fact: it just takes one digital copy of a song/movie/whatever to get out there, and it’s everywhere. You can’t stop it. No matter how annoying it is. No matter what laws it violates. It will happen.”

Read the rest of the post over at Digital Daily.

Just for fun: DRM Self-righteousness