Everything Is A Remix 1 - 4

1. What is a Remix?
To combine or edit existing materials to produce something new.

2. What style of music is mostly commonly associated with?
Hip Hop

3. Who and what did the sugar hill gang sample?
Chic 'Good Times' Base line

4. Which two other artists have used the same sample?
The Adventures Of Grandfather Flash ' Grandfather Flash' and Everything Is Gonna Be Alright 'Father MC'

5. Which band formed in 1968?
Lead Zeppelin

6. What term is coined in Paris in 1961?
Heavy Metal

7. What novel did it come from and who wrote it?
'The Soft Machine' By William Burroughs

8. What were the band formed in 1968 labeled as?
Ripoffs & The Biggest Rock Band In America

9. "Stairway To Heaven" Was based on which existing song?
Spirits "Taurus"

10. Whats the 'problem' with what Led Zeppelin did?
They didn't attribute the original artist and song and there wasn't enough modification to the songs.

11. Whats the difference between a cover and a Knock-off?
Covers - Performances of other peoples material.
Knock-Offs - Copies that stay within legal boundaries.

12. What do most box office hits rely on?
Existing Material.

13. How many Films out of 100 are sequels/remakes/or adaptations?
74

14. What is a 'genre movie'?
They're not sequels, Remakes or adaptations.

15. List 4 Sub Genres of Horror -
Slasher
Zombie
Creature Feature
Torture Porn

16. What happens to their standard elements?
They are Appropriated, Transformed and Subverted

17. List the elements of Star Wars -
The call to adventure
Supernatural Aid
Belly of the whale
Road of trials
Meeting with the goddess
"....and a bunch more"

18. Which TWO genres were huge sources for Star Wars?
Westerns & War Films

19. What does creation require?
Influence

20. Who is now the most movie saturated director?
George Lucas to Quentin Tarantino.

21. What are the myths of creativity?
Comes from Inspiration
Original creations break the mould
They're the products of geniuses
They appear quickly

22. Why do we need copying?
Its how we learn, Knowledge & Understanding

23. When was Guttenberg's Printing Press invented?
1440 CE

24. What elements were combined to create the model T in 1908?
Assembly Line 1867
Interchangeable Parts 1801
Automobile 1885

25. What are the basic elements of creativity?
Copy
Transform
Combine

26. Who invented the PC?
XEROX

27. What is multiple discovery?
Same inovation emurging from different places.

28. What is evolution?
Copy
Transform
Combine

29. What is the term for this in culture?
Memes
Ideas
Behaviours
Skills

30. What is this called?
Social Evolution

31. What docent law acknowledge?
Derivative nature of creativity.

32. What was the side effect of a market economy?
Original creations can't compete with the price of copies.

33. What was the point of the Copyright and patent act?
To address this imbalance.

34. What term was created to protect ideas?
Intellectual Property

35. What is loss aversion?
We hate loosing what we have got.

36. How did Disney use the public domain?
Snow White, Pinokio and Alice In Wonderland were all taken from the public domain.

37. "We have no problem with copying as long as...
....we're the ones doing it"

38. What song did George Harrison subconsciously copy?
'He's So Fine'

39. What connects Kanye West to "It Must Be Jesus"
The beat and the style of his song matches "It Must Be Jesus".

40. What is a patent?
A blueprint onto how to make an invention.

41. What is software patent?
A loose description of what something would actually be like if it was invented.

42. What % of the patent lawsuits are over software?
62%

43. How much wealth is estimated to have been lost?
Half a Trillion $500,000,000,000

44. What are sample trolls and patent trolls?
Their Business is Lawsuits, Acquire intellectual property rights then litigate to earn profits.

45. Who is the most famous sample troll and why?
Bridge Port Music, Filed hundreds of lawsuits

46. How long was the sample from 2005 and where was it from and where was it used?
Two second sample. 'Get Off Your Ass And Jam' by Funkadelic used in '100 Miles And Running' by N.W.A

47. Why had this been bad for hip hop?
Expensive to create.

48. Why are patent laws bad for Post-Modernisum?
 They stop people from developing already existing ideas into something better than they are already.