remixing & the law

Trajectories of RemixingJennifer Casa-Todd & Tiffany Lee

Learning Goals

1. What is remixing?

2. What’s the point of remixing? What are the literacy skills involved?

3. Concrete examples and tools that you can use involving remixing

4. Explore and discuss the benefits and drawbacks of remixing in schools

5. Fair use and copyright laws

6. Model best practices using creative commons

Google Draw1. In your Google Drive, Go to File, New, Google

Drawing

2. Insert an image

3. Modify your image properties (recolor, contrast, etc…)

Go to Image Options, Select your Adjustments

https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/14A2X1-pz8In_K-jr-FL_E5_DZtDgDTsHvAWGVu9GQ8k/copy

What is remixing?DJ Earworm Mashup - United State of Pop 2014 (Do What You Wanna Do)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjYWwZYLYEs

Remixing and Technology“Digital tools create new possibilities for getting access to information, for producing, sharing and reusing. The main point is that more and more people in our culture can take part in these remixing activities; not only an elite or specific groups. Most evident, it is young people who take a lead in creative practices using digital media.” (Knobel & Lankshear, 2008, pg 185)

“Digital Literacies people make meaning and express ideas” (Knobel & Lankshear, 2008, pg 186)

Culture = Remix“Lessig (2005) argues that culture as a whole can be construed as remix. Whenever we comment on, say, a film or a book and discuss it with others, we take the original author's creativity and remix it in our own lives, using it to extend our own ideas or to produce an evaluation. Lessig explains that "every single act of reading and choosing and criticizing and praising culture is in this sense remix, and it is through this general practice that cultures get made" (n.p.). Remix has not simply emerged with digitization.It has always been a part of any society's cultural development.”

(Knobel & Lankshear, 2008, pg 22)

Macbeth

Think of Shakespeare: “Macbeth draws on and recombines sources as diverse as Holinshed's Chronicles, Scot's Discovery of Witchcraft, and Greek traditions of tragedy” (Bate & Rasmussen, 2009) (Burwell, 2013, pg 209).

History

History

“We can trace the contemporary remix back to the early experiments in mechanical recording that resulted in film, photography, and recorded music (Burwell, 2013, pg 205)

History[R]emixing originally had a precise and a narrow meaning that gradually became diffused. Although precedents of re-mixing can be found earlier, it was the introduction of multi-track mixers that made remixing a standard practice. Since the mid-1970s we have seen many examples of how artists take existing music pieces or recordings and make something new of them

Gradually the term became more and more broad, referring to any reworking of already existing cultural work(s)

(Lankshear & Knobel, 2008, pg 185)

Why Remix?

http://padlet.com/MsCasaTodd/Remix

What is the purpose of this video?

What has the author done (how is the text constructed)?

How has this remix allowed you to re-think the original text?

What credit was given to the original works?

How might constructing and analysing re-mixes like this be important?

What literacy skills live in this activity?

From: The Pedagogical Potential of Video Remixing, Burwell, 2013.

From B

Homophobic Friends https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsQ5za-J6I8(Watch the first 6 mins 30 secs only)Buffy & Edward https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZwM3GvaTRM

Examples of Remixes"Photoshopping" remixes (Knobel & Lankshear, 2008, p 23)

● adding text to images,

● creating photo montages that mix elements

from two or more images together,

● changing the image context or properties.

http://images.chesscomfiles.com/uploads/images_users/tiny_mce/johnny_BACON/phpTausWA.jpeg

Examples of Remixing

www.101qs.com 1) http://www.101qs.com/87-sugar-packets

2) http://www.101qs.com/1968-frys-bank

3) http://www.101qs.com/2469-payday-scam

Examples of Remixing (cont)www.desmos.com

Example 1:

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/hmn49xqtk8

Example 2:

https://teacher.desmos.com/activitybuilder/custom/561be64abcdbdd1b06107ef2

Example of Remixing (cont) www.ed.ted.com/

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/when-to-use-me-myself-and-i-emma-bryce

Example of Remixing (cont) www.edpuzzle.com

Anime Music Videos AMV culture is a mix of anime, music and video culture. Anime are the various Japanese cartoon series on television. Aficionados of AMV culture record a full series of these anime cartoons and then re-edit them and synchronize them to music (Shear & Knobel, 2013, pg 285)

Animemusicvideos.org

Newgrounds .com

Example: https://youtu.be/BrOqj4QpLc4

Fan Fiction!

Examples of remixingPoetry Mashup assignment

Example of Audio remixing

https://sites.google.com/a/ycdsbk12.ca/garageband/change-the-banner

Storify

-use Social Media (Twitter, Facebook, Google +, Instagram, etc…) to create your own

story

https://storify.com/JCasaTodd/st-jerome-s-splice-innovation-week

Paper.li

Create a newspaper out of shared articles and posts (Twitter)

http://paper.li/Edtechnerd/1434946702?edition_id=1e8f6db0-7140-11e5-a927-

0cc47a0d164b

Happy Birthday! And Remixing News Headlines

1. Read this article:

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-happy-birthday-song-lawsuit-decision-

20150922-story.html

Skim and Scan the article.

What would a good alternative title to this be?

2. Go to News Jack: http://newsjack.in/

Copy and paste the above URL into the box “Enter a site to Remix”

Hover over title or anything else to change. Hit “Share Remix” Only 1 URL needed

Remix toolsPhoto Pic Collage , Photoshop, Instagram

Audio Garageband, Audacity

Websites News Jack: http://newsjack.in/, Facebook (editor)

Presentations http://www.slideshare.net/

Video iMovie, We Video, Zaption, Youtube, Ed puzzle, Ted Ed

Social Media Storify, Paper.li

Dynamic Worksheet Desmos/GeoGebra

Why Remix?

http://padlet.com/MsCasaTodd/Remix

“This also raises the question of authoring in remixing activities. In school based

activities the question of copy and paste has been raised as a concern since students

have been said to just take elements from other texts and copy them into their own

texts without much reflection. However, research that has been done on these activities

shows that if we look at this in longer trajectories of activities we find both discussions

and reflections on the selection, implementation and expression of different media

elements into new textual expressions by students (Rasmussen, 2005). Multimodal

practices could be said to give young people a voice to express their positions and

interests as agents of remixing. This can be seen in several initiatives about digital

storytelling and self-representation using digital tools, where these activities with young

people often are defined outside of school-based settings in order to avoid the

contextual constraints of schools and build directly on everyday experiences with

technologies (Hull & Greeno, 2006).”

(Lankshear & Knobel, 2008, p 187)

Excerpts - Remix BattleScenario A Scenario B

Is it worth the time?

OSAPAC: https://osapac.ca/ccpalo/dc/creation-and-credit/

How do we model ethical and responsible use?

Using Search Tools in Googlehttp://goo.gl/L7a72l

How do we model ethical and responsible use?Images:

Pixabay, Flickr, Google Apps for Education: Research Tool in Google

Music:

http://opsound.org/

http://freemusicarchive.org/curator/creative_commons/

Other:

https://archive.org

http://cmec.ca/publications/lists/publications/attachments/291/copyright_matters.pdf

What do you know?

http:

//creativecommons.

org/videos/wanna-

work-together

What is it?

Creative Commons LicensingSystem proposed by Lawrence Lessig, an American scholar specialized in intellectual

property and cyber law (Jones and Hafner, 2013, p46)

What is Creative Commons and what does it do?Creative Commons is a global nonprofit organization that enables sharing and reuse of

creativity and knowledge through the provision of free legal tools. [Their] legal tools help

those who want to encourage reuse of their works by offering them for use under generous,

standardized terms; those who want to make creative uses of works; and those who want to

benefit from this symbiosis. [Their]vision is to help others realize the full potential of the

internet. CC has affiliates all over the world who help ensure our licenses work internationally

and who raise awareness of our work.

From: https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions#What_is_Creative_Commons_and_what_do_you_do.3F

Found in all CC licences

Creative Commons BadgesResource:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10QP1R-taLNHpY1K2iaPwJ5s3n-

wV1tW3oFTYLNf3F3o/copy

Shared by Donna Fry, created by Gail Desler

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

What have you learned?

● Go back to your Google Draw.

● Insert the appropriate licence icon.

● Is there anything else you would have done differently?

This Presentation has assembled & remixed by Jennifer Casa-Todd and Tiffany Lee, thanks to CC & Rodd Lucier http://www.slideshare.net/thecleversheep/creative-commons-what-every-educator-needs-to-know-presentation

Jessica Coates http://www.slideshare.net/Jessicacoates/creative-commons-in-the-classroom-presentation

Donna Fry https://fryed.wordpress.com/2015/08/18/are-teachers-taught-about-creative-commons/

Doug Belshaw The Essential Elements (Chapter 7)

All images used are Creative Commons licensed or free to use/modify

You are welcome to remix this!

ReferencesBurwell, C. (2013). The Pedagogical Potential of Video Remix. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy J Adolesc Adult Liter, 57(3), 205-213.

doi:10.1002/jaal.205

Jones, R. H., & Hafner, C. A. (2012). Understanding digital literacies: A practical introduction. London: Routledge.

Knobel, M., & Lankshear, C. (2008). Digital literacies: Concepts, policies and practices. New York: Peter Lang.

Knobel, M., & Lankshear, C. (2008). Remix: The Art and Craft of Endless Hybridization. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 52(1), 22-33. doi:10.1598/jaal.52.1.3