Too Much Copyright is Detrimental to Creators and Users Alike
You can't talk about Mickey Mouse and show him on screen because that's a copyright violation. Similarly, you can't make cat GIFs if you...
How Movies Borrow From Other Movies, Books or TV Shows
Most movies rely heavily on existing material. Sure, some of them are sequels or adaptations, but all of them borrow concepts, plots, visuals, references,...
Everyone Copies: Just Like Michelangelo or Van Gogh
Copying older works was considered a valuable skill until very recently. Even great artists had to first learn and improve their skills. And what...
A Short Visual History of Copying
Sampling sure seems like a new thing, but remix culture has always been a huge part of creation. Only in the last century or...
Death Star’s Rebel Assault is a Remix
I hate the word "rip-off". What we generally call rip-offs are actually works we discovered their references from. But see, every movie has references....
The Irony of Disney Forever Owning Remixed Stuff
Wondered how awesome it would be to legally make a new Star Wars movie? Or to remix Disney's movies? Well ya can't.
Even if both...
The Shape of Water: An Ode to Other Movies
The Oscar winning movie "The Shape of Water" was influenced by other works before it. The old trope of a human falling in love...
Remix & File-Sharing: The Internet is Closing Down
Remix and file-sharing go hand in hand. Almost like water, people need inspiration and the tools to make things out those works that already...
Every Hollywood Movie Score is a Remix
From Transformers to Battlestar Galactica, from Alice in Wonderland to Guardians of the Galaxy, Hollywood movie scores tend to sound pretty similar.
This has to...
Star Wars’ Pod Race Inspired by Ben-Hur’s Chariot Race
The camera work of new movies is always inspired by older ones. As the pod race is a direct reference to the chariot race....
