Holly Armitage Everything is a remix 1. What is a remix? To combine or edit existing materials to produce something new 2.

What style of music was it most commonly associated with? Hip-hop 3. Who and what did the Sugar Hill gang sample? Chic Good times, the bass riff 4. Which two other artists have used the same sample? Grandmaster Flash and Father MC 5. Which band formed in 1968? Led Zeppelin 6. What term is coined in Paris in 1961? Heavy Metal 7. What novel did it come from and who wrote it? William Burroughs The Soft Machine 8. What was the band formed in 1968 labelled as? RIP-OFFS 9. Stairway to Heaven was based on which existing song? Spirits Taurus 10. Whats the problem with what Led Zeppelin did? - They didnt attribute song writing to the original artist - They didnt modify their versions enough 11. Whats the difference between a cover and a knock off? Covers are a performance of other peoples material, whereas knock-offs are copies that stay within the legal boundaries 12. What do most box office hits rely on? Existing material 13. How many films out of 100 are sequels, remakes, or adaptations? 74

Holly Armitage 14. What is a genre movie? Films that stick to a template 15. List 4 sub genres of horror - Slasher - Torture Porn - Creature Feature - Zombies 16. What happens to their standard elements? They are appropriated, transformed and subverted 17. List the elements of Star Wars It follows the outline of THE MONOMYTH: - The call to adventure - Supernatural Aid - The Belly of a Whale - The Road of Trials - The Meeting with the Goddess It takes elements from its influences: - Flash Gordon provided soft wipes and the opening titles design - Kurosawa provided Masters of spiritual Martial arts, Low ranking bickering duo, more soft wipes, beneath the floor boards hideaway and a bad guy getting his arm chopped off. 18. Which two genres were huge sources for Star Wars? War Films and Westerns 19. What does creation require? Influence 20. Who is now the most movie saturated director? QUENTIN TARANTINO 21. What are the myths of creativity? - Creativity comes via inspiration - Original creations break the mould - They are products of genius - They appear quickly 22. Why do we need copying? We cant learn anything until we are fluent in what is already out there. We need copying to build our knowledge and understanding

Holly Armitage 23. When was Guttenbergs printing press invented? Around 1440 24. What elements were combined to create the model T in 1908? Assembly Line, Interchangeable parts and the Automobile 25. What are the basic elements of creativity? Copy, Transform, Combine 26. Who invented the PC? XEROX 27. What is multiple discovery? The same innovation emerging from different places 28. What is evolution? LUCA: Copy, Transform and Combine 29. What is the term for this in culture? Memes 30. What is this called? Social Evolution 31. What doesnt law acknowledge? The derivative nature of creativity 32. What was the side effect of a market company? Original creations cant compete with the price of a copy 33. What was the point of the copyright and patent act? They aimed to encourage the creation of new ideas, by providing a period of exclusivity, where no-one else can copy your idea 34. What term was created to protect ideas? Intellectual property 35. What is loss aversion? When we are territorial over our ideas, and see someone copying them as a loss of our property 36. How did Disney use the public domain? They used the public domain in stories such a Snow White, Alice and Wonderland and Pinocchio.

Holly Armitage 37. We have no problem with copying as long as... As long as we are the ones doing it 38. Which song did George Harrison subconsciously copy? The Chiffons Hes so fine 39. What song connects Kanye West and It Must be Jesus? Charles R. Richard I got a woman 40. What is a patent? A blueprint for how to make an invention 41. What is a software patent? A loose description of what something would be like if it was invented 42. What percentage of law suits are over software? 62% 43. How much wealth is estimated to have been lost? Half a trillion dollars ($500,000,000,000) 44. What are sample trolls and patent trolls? Corporations who dont produce anything, they just require a library of intellectual property rights to earn profits their targets are highly motivated to settle out of court 45. Who is the most famous sample troll and why? Bridgeport Music they filed hundreds of law suits 46. How long was the sample from 2005 and where was it from and where was it used? 2 second long sample from Funkadelic - Get off your Ass and Jam was used in N.W.A 100 Miles and running, but it was virtually undetectable 47. Why has this been bad for hip-hop? It rendered any kind of sampling infringing on copyright laws, making hiphop music expensive to create 48. Why are patent laws bad for post-modernism? Because property is becoming more and more inaccessible to use, postmodern pieces cannot hope to contain a large amount of intertexual references, or to copy other products within the bricolage, pastiche or homage genres.