Film Viewing Guiding Questions!

Film Viewing Guiding Questions!

Watch the film Everything is a Remix and

respond to the following prompts and
questions in your sketchbook.

Watch the film Everything is a Remix and

respond to the following prompts and
questions in your sketchbook.

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What does it mean to remix?!
What does it mean to sample?!
Why is Led Zeppelins music somewhat controversial?!
What is a cover? What is a knockoff?!
What is legal remixing?!

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Why do you think that box office hits rely on existing material?!
Why are genre movies not original?!
What does it mean we stand on the shoulders of giants?!

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What does it mean to remix?!

What does it mean to sample?!
Why is Led Zeppelins music somewhat controversial?!
What is a cover? What is a knockoff?!
What is legal remixing?!

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Why do you think that box office hits rely on existing material?!
Why are genre movies not original?!
What does it mean we stand on the shoulders of giants?!

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What are myths of creativity?!
What is copying? Why is it important for us to copy?!
What is transformation (as it pertains to being creative)?!
Why is it important to combine?!
Why is the interdependence of creativity difficult for us to
comprehend?!

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Why does Kirby think that ideas should not be property?!

What are the three steps of evolution?!
What are memes?!
How does the law limit the bounds of creativity?!
What is the difference between copyright and a patent?!
How has the market economy distorted our sense of the
common good?!
7.! How is loss aversion having a negative impact on creativity?!
8.! Why are we okay with copying so long as we are the ones doing
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9.! Who wins when people fight over ideas and what they create?!
10.! Is it important to have a rich public domain?

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What are myths of creativity?!

What is copying? Why is it important for us to copy?!
What is transformation (as it pertains to being creative)?!
Why is it important to combine?!
Why is the interdependence of creativity difficult for us to
comprehend?!

Part 4:!
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Why does Kirby think that ideas should not be property?!

What are the three steps of evolution?!
What are memes?!
How does the law limit the bounds of creativity?!
What is the difference between copyright and a patent?!
How has the market economy distorted our sense of the
common good?!
7.! How is loss aversion having a negative impact on creativity?!
8.! Why are we okay with copying so long as we are the ones doing
it?!
9.! Who wins when people fight over ideas and what they create?!
10.! Is it important to have a rich public domain?