Everything is a Remix Part 3 (Original Series, 2011)
Overview
Part 3 of Kirby Ferguson's Everything is a Remix series, using Apple and the iPhone to show how invention builds on copying and combining prior ideas. It argues that creativity and innovation are inseparable from copying.
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Cited in copyright and patent debates to argue that creative works and inventions evolve by building on earlier ones.
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Video by Kirby Ferguson, played through YouTube.
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