Cool mini-doc about remix culture called Walking on Eggshells. Definitely worth watching, but it is worth just listening if you can’t spare 24 minutes of full attention. Lots of cool ideas and quotes.
Walking on Eggshells: Borrowing Culture in the Remix Age from Brendan Schlagel on Vimeo.
Researching a quote from Thomas Jefferson led me here:
As secretary of state, Jefferson ran our first American patent office. For him, its purpose was to promulgate inventions, not to protect them. He hated monopoly and was determined that the patent process shouldn’t serve it. The peculiar character of an idea, said Jefferson, is that
… no one possesses the less because everyone possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me receives [it] without lessening [me], as he who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me.