"Everything is a Remix" Video Notes

-remix- to combine or edit existing news to create something different
-started in music
-the arrangement and transformation of samples
-myths of creativity
-romantics- Beethoven
-light bulb- metaphor for creativity, Pablo Picasso
-3 basic elements in creativity:
     1. Domain Knowledge- learning language
                                       - copying
                                       - learning, mimicking what other people are doing
     2. Transformation- producing variations of existing things
                                - steam engine, type writer, light bulb, Thomas Edison
     3. Combinations- merging existing things together
                              - E= MC2, printing press, internet
-Starwars- remix from old westerns, war movies, movies from the early 1920's
-implications- original ideas are considered property, sense of ownership
-loss aversion- our brains don't realize when we copy, but we get possessive when people copy us
-ideas are property- you can't steal ideas, you can only copy them, they still belong to the creator
-more examples- mac, xerox, lisa