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Remix Culture Copy Editing Week 5:

(This is the lead.)

Original, Unedited:

Remix culture, sometimes read-write culture, is a society that allows and encourages derivative works by combining or editing existing materials to produce a new creative work or product. A remix culture would be, by default, permissive of efforts to improve upon, change, integrate, or otherwise remix the work of copyright holders. While combining elements has always been a common practice of artists of all domains throughout human history, the growth of exclusive copyright restrictions in the last several decades limits this practice more and more by the legal chilling effect. In reaction, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig, who considers remixing a desirable concept for human creativity, has worked since the early 2000s on a transfer of the remixing concept into the digital age. Lessig founded the Creative Commons in 2001, which released Licenses as tools to enable remix culture again, as remixing is legally prevented by the default exclusive copyright regime applied currently on intellectual property. The remix culture for cultural works is related to and inspired by the earlier Free and open-source software for software movement, which encourages the reuse and remixing of software works.

Edited:

Remix culture, sometimes read-write culture, is a term describing a society that allows and encourages derivative works by combining or editing existing materials to produce a new creative work or product. A remix culture would be, by default, permissive of efforts to improve upon, change, integrate, or otherwise remix the work of copyright holders. Combining elements has consistently been a common practice of artists of all domains throughout human history, but in recent years copyright restrictions have made this more difficult. The remix culture for cultural works is related to and inspired by the earlier Free and open-source software for software movement, which encourages the reuse and remixing of software works. The combining of cultures in remix culture, the effect of artists, copyright issues, domains of remix culture, overall history, and reception will be included in this article.

I took out this chunk, "more and more by the legal chilling effect. In reaction, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig, who considers remixing a desirable concept for human creativity, has worked since the early 2000s on a transfer of the remixing concept into the digital age. Lessig founded the Creative Commons in 2001, which released Licenses as tools to enable remix culture again, as remixing is legally prevented by the default exclusive copyright regime applied currently on intellectual property." Because in my opinion, this feels more iindepth than a leade should, and instead should be included in the history section. I added this section, "The combining of cultures in remix culture, the effect of artists, copyright issues, domains of remix culture, overall history, and reception will be included in this article." In order to give the reader a better understanding of what is to come. I think there must be a more elgent, refined way to phrase this but I don't yet know how.

Bibliography with Reasons


 * Curran, James (2012). “Rethinking Internet History” in J. Curran, N. Fenton, and D. Freedman (eds.) Misunderstanding the Internet, (pp. 34-60). London: Routledge. - In the section of "Revolt of the Nerds" Curran talks about repurposing one thing for another, and I think that is applicable to remix culture.
 * Chapter 5 from Galloway, Alexander. (2004).Protocol: How control exists after decentralization. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. - Is there some way to use this to demonstrate/exemplify Hacking as a remix-culture? I think there might be.
 * Hetcher, S. (2009). Using Social Norms to Regulate Fan Fiction and Remix Culture. University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 157(6), 1869-1935. Retrieved October 2, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/40380281 - I just realized there is nothing about fanfiction on this wiki, and I don't know how there isn't any so this is extremely relevant. Actually I think I might want to make it my project to add fanfiction as a section!
 * Jansen, B. (2013). The Case of ccMixter: Credit-Giving within a Communal Online Remixing Practice. In Thissen J., Zwijnenberg R., & Zijlmans K. (Eds.), Contemporary Culture: New Directions in Art and Humanities Research (pp. 155-166). Amsterdam University Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctt6wp6n0.14 - Giving credit where credit is due in a culture that is based off using other peoples work to make your own.
 * Rosenblatt, B., & Tushnet, R. (2015). Transformative Works: Young Women’s Voices on Fandom and Fair Use. In Bailey J. & Steeves V. (Eds.), EGirls, eCitizens: Putting Technology, Theory and Policy into Dialogue with Girls’ and Young Women’s Voices (pp. 385-410). University of Ottawa Press. Retrieved October 2, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.temple.edu/stable/j.ctt15nmj7f.19 - More fanfiction stuff, since thats what I've decided I would like to focus on.
 * Rosenblatt, B., & Tushnet, R. (2015). Transformative Works: Young Women’s Voices on Fandom and Fair Use. In Bailey J. & Steeves V. (Eds.), EGirls, eCitizens: Putting Technology, Theory and Policy into Dialogue with Girls’ and Young Women’s Voices (pp. 385-410). University of Ottawa Press. Retrieved October 2, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt15nmj7f.19 - Good for perspective on why people write fanfiction, and more about fair use in remix culture.

Draft of Contributions (This would be a new section within the Remix Culture Article, under Domains of Remixing, in the Books and Other Information Section)
Fanfiction is an example of remix culture in action, in relation to books. These remixed stories draw on the characters and/or worlds of books in order to tell their own story, or their own version of the original story. Remix Culture relies on creators taking one work and repurposing it for another use just as fanfiction takes an existing work and repurposes it for a new story, or series of events. Steven Hetcher writes that fanfiction, and remix culture at a broader level, can provide social benefit to the societies who participate in writing and reading fanfiction. Fanfictions require creativity on the part of the author, and are generally made with no monetary gain to be made. Fanfiction encourages reading, and since there is generally no financial benefit, authors are not exploiting original creators work.