This is my piece of a longer Whitworth University panel discussion called "Media Unlimited: Technology, Ethics and Life at Whitworth in the 21st Century," 3/15/2010 @Whitworth University. The whole panel discussion + Q&A is available (and free) from iTunes U: http://tinyurl.com/29ro257 I quote from a NYT article on Harry Potter knock-offs, and that article is available here: http://tinyurl.com/35k2a22 I also quote from William Gibson's "Rocket Radio" essay, which is available here: http://tinyurl.com/35235h9

1. “Sharing Culture in the Internet Era”
A few thoughts on the
sharing of culture.
Fred Johnson
Whitworth U
Robinson Teaching Theater
3/15/10
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2. The Art of Remixed Culture

3. The Art of Remixed Culture

4. The Legal Jeopardy of Borrowers

5. Oral
Tradition

6. Oral
Tradition

8. I totally
remixed your story,
dude.
& my version will sell.

9. I totally
remixed your story,
dude.
& my version will sell.

10. Culture Still Circulates...
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11. Blues
Consider the
Robert Johnson

12. Blues
Consider the
Robert Johnson
Borrowed from Others

13. Blues
Consider the
Robert Johnson
Borrowed from Others
Influences Rolling Stones, Eric
Clapton, The Animals, The Who,
Lynard Skynyrd, Red Hot Chili
Peppers, and many more.

14. Blues
Consider the
Sold soul?
Robert Johnson
Borrowed from Others
Influences Rolling Stones, Eric
Clapton, The Animals, The Who,
Lynard Skynyrd, Red Hot Chili
Peppers, and many more.

25. Who owns the characters?

26. Fan Fiction
Who owns the characters?

27. Who owns Dumbledore?
Who owns the characters?

28. Who owns the characters?

29. Harry Potter and the
Leopard-Walk-Up-to-Dragon
Harry becomes a fat, hairy
dwarf after being caught in
a “sour and sweet rain.”

30. Harry Potter and Platform
Nine and Three-Quarters
...and the meteor you saw
in the sky was my traipsing
manteau.

31. “The Street finds its own
uses for things--uses the
manufacturers never
imagined.”
William F. Gibson
“Rocket Radio” (1989)

32. Cory Doctorow

33. Cory Doctorow

34. Magic Underpants Gnome
http://peripheryarts.blogspot.com/2007/02/someone-to-watch-over-me.html

35. Magic Underpants Gnome
Step 1: Sue downloaders,
treat listeners as criminals,
and cripple the technology by
removing features.
Step 2:
Step 3: Everyone returns to mall.
http://peripheryarts.blogspot.com/2007/02/someone-to-watch-over-me.html

36. Magic Underpants Gnome
Step 1: Sue downloaders,
treat listeners as criminals,
and cripple the technology by
removing features.
Step 2:
Step 3: Everyone returns to mall.
Fast forward
makes me a sad, sad
gnome.
http://peripheryarts.blogspot.com/2007/02/someone-to-watch-over-me.html

37. Stanford U.
Law Prof.
Lawrence Lessig

38. Stanford U.
Law Prof.
Bad law breeds
disrespect for all law.
Lawrence Lessig

41. Lessig
Argument: digital
technology allows us to
revive amateur culture,
user generated content,
“culture where people
produce for the love of
what they’re doing and
NOT for the money.”

42. No more rock millionaires? OK.

43. No gas $, no tour, kiddo.
No more rock? Not OK.

44. And then no band.
No gas $, no tour, kiddo.
No more rock? Not OK.

45. Robert Johnson

46. Robert Johnson
Died Poor and Unrecognized

47. Are you simply circulating culture?

48. Are you simply circulating culture?
Or are you remixing the
next great performer
or writer into oblivion?

49. More Learning
Corey Doctorow
Lawrence Lessig
William F. Gibson’s “Rocket Radio”
Edward Felton
James Surowiecki
Clay Shirky
Google This: “A Fairy Use Tale”