Thru-You Remixes How-To Culture
Take one part exhibitionist tendencies. Add in cheap video cameras, the Internet and an easy place to post / share / distribute videos. Add public access to the media assets. Shake with creative flair a musically talented DJ.
What do you get? Thru-You: Kutiman mixes of YouTube. For instance:
(Be sure to watch and listen to all the videos too.)
Cool, yes? I think it might be the coolest thing I have seen yet this year, reinterpreting the existing experiences we have in a new, fresh, transformed way.
It rekindles my faith that the web may well represent the rebirth of common creativity. Everyone be creative now.
Remix Rights and TOS
The Thru-You videos and songs also raise all kinds of good, meaty questions about rights, ownership of work and remix culture.
In particular, they add to the evidence of the declining usefulness of Terms of Service or Terms of Use statements. The Thru-You videos and songs violate YouTube’s Terms of Service. But they work in YouTube’s favor, driving traffic, increased attention and adoption of the service.
So if You-Tube doesn’t enforce its Terms of Service do they remain in force?
I think that challenge is waiting to happen.
Now I’m not a IP expert. But it seems to me that every time YouTube chooses not to enforce their Terms of Service they weaken their ability to enforce them in the future.
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creativity, DJ, Kutiman, music, remix, remix culture, Terms of Service, Thru-You, videos, youtube
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