Tag: remix

Lessig's REMIX Released Under CC License; Remix Contest Launched By Bloomsbury Academic

Lawrence Lessig‘s latest book Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy is getting the CC treatment from Bloomsbury Academic (CC coverage here and here). Starting today, the entire book is available for free download under a CC BY-NC license from Bloomsbury Academic’s website. We are incredibly excited that a text devoted to … Read More “Lessig's REMIX Released Under CC License; Remix Contest Launched By Bloomsbury Academic”

Arts / culture

Live from the NYPL & Wired Present: Lawrence Lessig, Shepard Fairey, and Steven Johnson

New Yorkers – next Thursday, February 26, Wired and Live from the NYPL will bring together Lawrence Lessig, Shepard Fairey, and Steven Johnson for a discussion about Lessig’s new book, Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. The conversation will take place at 7:00pm at the Celeste Bartos Forum at the New … Read More “Live from the NYPL & Wired Present: Lawrence Lessig, Shepard Fairey, and Steven Johnson”

Events

2008 Sparky Award Winners

The winners of last year’s Sparky Awards are now officially up online (see today’s press release). The Sparky Awards is “a contest organized by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and adopted by campuses nationwide that calls on entrants to creatively illustrate in a short video the value of sharing ideas.” The student … Read More “2008 Sparky Award Winners”

Weblog

Restiform Bodies remix contest – winning submissions to be released on vinyl

My friends in the hip-hop/electronic trio Restiform Bodies recently announced a remix contest to celebrate the release of their new album, TV Loves You Back, on anticon records. All of the acapella tracks from the album are offered under a Creative Commons BY-NC license, so you can sample them, remix them, and mash them up. … Read More “Restiform Bodies remix contest – winning submissions to be released on vinyl”

Arts / culture