Remix culture is a society that allows and encourages derivative works by combining or editing existing materials to produce a new product. A Remix Culture would be, by default, permissive of efforts to improve upon, change, integrate, or otherwise remix the work of copyright holders. In his 2008 book, Remix, Lawrence Lessig presents this as a desirable ideal and argues, among other things, that the health, progress, and wealth creation of a culture is fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process. This remix process is an essential aspect of contemporary art practice and in remixthebook, the artist Mark Amerika identifies remix as a significant rhetorical trope employed in the creation of innovative works of visual, literary, and performance art.
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