Anyone seen this movie?
RIP: A Remix Manifesto
ABOUT THE FILM
In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.
Looks very interesting and I’d love to see it when it’s available. In keeping with the spirit of the film, remixes are encouraged and the film will evolve from it’s “beta” presentation at Festival du Nouveau Cinéma with the inclusion of user-submitted remixes. The film explores the ideas around copyright clashing with digital culture guided by its protagonist, Girl Talk. Girl Talk, is a musician who’s (in)famous for using numerous unauthorized samples in his music.
The nature of media is changing. Recently Ian Rogers made the following statement to the Recording Academy:
GRAMMY Northwest MusicTech Summit Keynote by Ian Rogers
the media space have changed and you shouldn’t expect the winners or even the definition of winning to stay constant
This is the the truth. New ways of engaging with media are here, and the business models that evolve from this revolution in media consumption will fundamentally change the media industry’s landscape.
Well… despite my complaining about RDFa, we have managed to cobble together something fairly easily. Almost everything we need for the properties is found in the Dublin Core terms namespace. We’ve taken a stab at writing a vocabulary document to define the extra attribution properties that can help systems track media over the Web. Those are:
- attributionCopied: Indicates that the described resource is a copy of the related resource from which it is derived. See also: The need for an attribution trail.
- attributionModified: Indicates that the described resource is a modified copy of the related resource from which it is derived.
- attributionDerived: Indicates that the described resource is a derivative work of the related resource from which it is derived. See also: Reusing Content: Derived Work vs Modified Work
These vocabularies let us specify how various copies of media spread throughout the Web are related to each other. The vocabulary document is here: http://playtheweb.org/rdf/
Then we can use the Dublin Core terms to fill out the information a little more broadly. Specifically title, identifier, date and license. More detail could be added, but those are the baseline needs.
This is a bit barebones at the moment. It certainly can be improved. I’ve been thinking that it might be better to use a single term to denote a relationship and another set of triples to describe the kinds of relationships rather than having a separate relationship term for every type.
There also needs to be more work on how to denote an attribution trail, especially when an object is a mash-up from multiple sources.
Seamus and I presented a little about what we were doing at BarCamp Vancouver and we had a great time. Many kudos to the people that made BarCamp such a success. Read more…
So I’ve spent the last few days trying to get my head around RDFa, and I gotta say, it’s not easy. Excessive complexity is a charge often levelled against RDF and it’s something that RDFa was meant to mitgate. Has it been successful in that? I would say partially, yes. Read more…
We were recently at Yahoo’s Hack Day and one of the presentations I attended was by the SearchMonkey guys. What piqued my interest here was that the teaser paragraph talked about augmenting search results with the semantic web — e.g. Microformats, XSLT, RDFa, et al. Hmmm, sounds applicable… Read more…
