Brett Gaylor

http://ripremix.com/

The above link gives a brief description of the RiP: A remix manifesto. We watched this film in class, but for those of you that have not seen it, basically Brett Gaylor and musician Greg Gillis go into the world of copy right. Gillis is also known as Girl Talk and basically makes his living mashing up songs from other artists. He right now is infringing on copy right, but his argument is that he puts his won creative twists on them. After he gets done with a song they really do not sound like the original artist. The film talks about Walt Disney and on how strict their copy rights are. They have sued people many times for using their cartoons, most of the time Mickey mouse, and turning it into their own work which does not represent the views of Disney. Sometimes I have the tendency to agree with this documentary, but other times I think that copy right is a good thing even when it seems harsh. I know that if I founded a company like Disney and people were making satires of my cartoon I would want the right to make them stop. This film is very interesting and sheds some light on the ways of copy right. There are a lot of things in this video that many people would not know. Definitely a good watch!

Brett Gaylor is not only known for this documentary, he also product manger of webmaker. He talks a little bit about their new features and how their testing them out with MozFest. The above video explains a little about what MozFest does. it created products for Motzilla. He explains how MozFest really in a lot of ways is shaping the internet and how we use the internet. Webmaker he explains is going more and more global. MozFest allows them to try out their prototypes and "build the web that we want."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Gaylor

this wiki page just gives a brief description about Brett Gaylor. He is a Canadian documentary filmmaker. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia right now. He is currently working with the Mozilla Popcorn project. Before he worked as a member director of EyeSteelFirm, which is documentary film company. He also founded the Open Source Cinema project. These are just a select few of the things Bret Gaylor has accomplished so far so one can see he has been very busy. He has received several honors and awards.  one of his greatest was that his documentary RiP: A Remix Manifesto was shown at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam!