Creative Commons » Stephen Colbert http://creativecommons.org Share, reuse, and remix — legally. Thu, 24 May 2012 19:21:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Colbert Invites Discourages More Remixing http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/12374 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/12374#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:38:20 +0000 Fred Benenson http://creativecommons.org/?p=12374 Colbert Smaller
After discovering the dozens of unauthorized and possibly infringing remix videos that resulted from his adamant calls not to remix his interview with CC founder, Lawrence Lessig, Stephen Colbert is mad. He’s so mad he featured a new segment and music video challenging fans not to remix his show any more. He reiterated this demand in a staccato a capella, so that fans could clearly understand what he was saying and not sample his words. If someone were to remix his show or audio book, they certainly shouldn’t upload it to the special section of Colbert Nation soliciting uploads, either.

]]> http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/12374/feed 2 Lessig/Colbert remixes on ccMixter http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/12058 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/12058#comments Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:35:55 +0000 Mike Linksvayer http://creativecommons.org/?p=12058 CC founder Lawrence Lessig appeared on the Colbert Report last Thursday talking about his latest book, REMIX. The segment was great, and hilarious, as is typical for Colbert — and double plus fun for copyright geeks and activists, as Colbert challenged the audience to not remix the interview “with some great dance beat, and then it starts showing up in clubs across America.”

Lessig pointed out on air that because he didn’t waive his joint copyrights to the segment, he and Colbert are joint owners, and either can exploit the work freely. In this case Lessig has published the interview under CC BY, allowing anyone to remix or even commercially exploit the work for free.

The interview “accapella” is up on ccMixter, where it is rapidly being remixed with great dance beats (see “samples used in:” on the right).

]]> http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/12058/feed 1 Lawrence Lessig on Colbert Report Tonight http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/12008 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/12008#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:21:18 +0000 Fred Benenson http://creativecommons.org/?p=12008 Creative Commons’ founder, Lawrence Lessig has been recently talking about his new book, REMIX but tonight he’ll be appearing as the special guest on The Colbert Report, airing on Comedy Central at 11:30pm / 10:30c.

More information available on Colbert Nation, and streaming video of show should be available tomorrow, so keep an eye on our twitter and identi.ca accounts for links.

UPDATE: Here’s the streaming video of Larry’s appearance last night.

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