What is a remix? To combine or edit existing materials to produce something new.

What style of music was it most commonly associated with? Hip-hop. Who and what did the Sugar Hill Gang sample? Chic Good Times in their 1979 hit, Rappers delight. Which two other artists have used the same sample? Grandmaster Flash and Father MC. Daft Punk is a more up-to-date example. Which band formed in 1968? Led Zeppelin. What term is coined in Paris in 1961? Heavy Metal. What novel did it come from and who wrote it? William Burroughs The Soft Machine. What was the band, formed in 1968, labeled as? Rip-offs. Stairway to Heaven was based on which existing song? Taurus by Spirit. Whats the problem with what Led Zeppelin did? When Zeppelin used someones material, they didnt attribute songwriting to the original artist. Zeppelin didnt modify their versions enough to claim they were original they copied without making fundamental changes. Whats the difference between a cover and a knock off? Covers performances of other peoples material. Knock-offs copies that stay within legal boundaries. What do most box office hits rely on? Existing material. How many films out of 100 are sequels/remakes/adaptations? 74. What is a genre movie? Genres stick to templates of characteristics that the type of movie fits into. These are then split into subgenres. List 4 subgenres of horror. Slasher, zombie, creature feature, and torture porn.

What happens to their standard elements? They are appropriated, transformed, and subverted. List the elements of Star Wars. The monomyth the call to adventure, supernatural aid, the belly of the whale, road of trials, meeting with the goddess. Which two genres were huge sources for Star Wars? War films and westerns. What does creation require? Influence. Who is now the worst movie saturated director? Quentin Tarantino. What are the myths of creativity? Thomas Edison creating the light bulb, James Watt only created an improvement to the steam engine he then spent 12 years creating his, Christopher modeled his typewriter keyboard on a piano this then slowly developed over 5 years. Why do we need copying? By connecting ideas together, creative leaps can be made. When was Guttenbergs printing press invented? 1440 CE. What elements were combined to create the Model T in 1908? Assembly line, interchangeable parts, and the automobile. What are the basic elements of creativity? Copy, transform, and combine. Who invented the PC? XEROX. What is multiple discovery? The same innovation emerging from different places. What is evolution? Copy, transform, and combine. The gradual development of something. What is the term for this in culture? Memes ideas, behaviour, and skills. What is this called? Social evolution.

What doesnt the law acknowledge? The derivative nature of creativity ideas are, instead, seen as property. What was the side effect of a market economy? Original creations cant compete with the price of copies. What was the point of the copyright and patent act? Intended to address this imbalance. Both aimed to encourage the creation and proliferation of new ideas by providing a brief and limited period of exclusivity. What term was created to protect the idea? Intellectual property. What is loss aversion? We hate losing what weve got. How did Disney use the public domain? With stories such as Snow White, Pinocchio, and Alice in Wonderland all being taken from the public domain. We have no problem with copying as long as were the ones doing it Which song did George Harrison subconsciously copy? He So Fine in his ballad, My Sweet Lord. What connects Kanye West to It Must Be Jesus? Ray Charles created I Got a Woman influenced by It Must Be Jesus Kanye Wests Gold Digger is influenced heavily by I Got a Woman. What is a patent? A blueprint for how to make an invention. What is a software patent? A loose description of what something would look like if it actually was invented. Broadest language broadest protection. What percentage of patent lawsuits are over software? 62%. How much wealth is estimated to have been lost? Half a trillion dollars ($500,000,000,000). What are sample trolls and patent trolls? Corporations that dont actually produce anything they hire a library of intellectual property rights, and then litigate to earn profits.

Who is the most famous sample troll and why? Bridgeport Music. They conducted a lawsuit over a two second sample allegedly being copied from a barely recognizable source in 2005. How long was the sample from 2005, and where was it from, and where was it used? 15 years before 2005. It was taken from Get Off Your Ass and Jam and used in 100 Miles Runnin Why has this been bad for hip-hop? Sample heavy collages of hip-hops golden age are now impossibly expensive to create. Why are patent laws bad for postmodernism? The belief of intellectual property has pushed aside the original, encouraging, purposes of patents and copyrights. Postmodernism uses lots of intertextual references developed patent laws and territorial nature of intellectual property makes these remixing of ideas virtually impossible to create or produce.