Remix

From past to present

Scope of Copyright Protection

Copyright protection extends to expressions and not to ideas, procedures, methods of operation

or mathematical concepts as such.

Article 2 WIPO Copyright Treaty

Right of Reproduction

Performers shall enjoy the exclusive right of authorizing the direct or indirect reproduction of their performances fixed in phonograms, in

any manner or form.

Article 6 WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty

Remixing?

• Explanation– Innovation is changing the past

• Remixing of previous materials– Building on preexisting materials creating new culture

Remixing materials, then

• Surrealism in the 1920's

• Rose Hobart (1936)

Remixing materials, now

All ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources. - Mark Twain

A good composer does not imitate, he steals. - Igor Stravinsky

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.- Pablo Picasso

Others

Remix- part 2 -

The use of pre-existing material for new intellectual creations in design and patent right

Daan Wijnnobel, The Netherlands

Everything is a remix!

Art 7 TRIPS

‘The protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights should contribute to the promotion of

technological innovation and to the transfer and dissemination of technology, to the mutual advantage

of producers and users of technological knowledge and in a manner conducive to social and economic warfare, and to a balance of rights and obligations.‘

Steve Jobs 2010

‘I’m going to destroy Android because it’s a stolen product. I’m

willing to go thermonuclear war on this.’

Is this the scope of Intellectual Property today?

Theft Innovation

Thank you!