the politics of reproduction + the copy

Man with a Movie Camera ~ Remix

Creative Commons Project

Visit the Creative Commons site (http://creativecommons.org/), read some of the case studies, and then answer the following questions:

A. How does the Creative Commons project alter the way we understand ownership and copyright?

B. How does this project affect the subject(s) of a work?

C. How would a Creative Commons license have altered the works cited in the text (Gone with the Wind, the work of Sherrie Levine and Michael Mandiberg)?

D. Does the Creative Commons project afford any protection to the right of publicity (the Bela Lugosi case)?

According to Walter Benjamin, “Instead of being based on ritual, [art] begins to be based on another practice—politics.”Review the works (and images) below and discuss the political or historical referent that the works are based upon.Mao: The Slide Show

• Mao Crazy (http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=e92208b2-b57e-4028-8d09-543bcdc98393)

Norman Rockwell’s Rosie the Riveter (http://www.rosietheriveter.org/painting.htm

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