I found it to be an interesting look at the creation of culture and inventions. A few of the many examples include rock/rap/music sampling, Star Wars and Kill Bill, the creation of the Macintosh, and the copying of books, music, and software. (Sidenote: If you watch it, be sure to watch after the credits. The videos are about 8-10 minutes long, but the filmmaker runs the credits halfway through, and then restarts with another, equally interesting subject.)

The first video covers music, the second talks about cinema, and the third discusses inventions like the lightbulb and the personal computer. The fourth and final video discusses the evolution of ideas and the system of intellectual property, copyrights, and patents. It's a very basic introduction to the idea of "software as product" that Eben mentioned in class. While the fourth video is the most directly "legal", the basic premise of remixing echoes our discussion of creative lawyering.

We've talked about how creative lawyering involves combining an understanding of the various fields of social action. Creativity requires us to understand the basics so that we can move through the stages: copying ideas from various disciplines, transforming them into mechanisms applicable to legal frameworks, and combining them all to achieve a legal result.

-- JacquelineRios - 21 Mar 2012