Walking on Eggshells is a nicely-done 24-minute documentary about appropriation, creative influence, re-use and intellectual property in the remix age.

It is a conversation among various musicians, visual artists, writers and lawyers, all sharing their views on why and how we use and create culture, and how intellectual property law, originally designed to provide people with incentives to create, sometimes hinders creative production far more than it enhances it.

Lots of food for thought. Check it out and see parts 2 & 3 below.

brendanschlagel via Remix Theory:

This film is our final project for the seminar “Intellectual Property in the Digital Age” at Yale University.

Directed and Produced by:
Jacob Albert
Ryan Beauchamp
Brendan Schlagel

Interviews with (in order of appearance):
Eclectic Method
DJ Earworm (Jordan Roseman)
Joy Garnett
Michael Cunningham
Dudley Andrew
DJ Ripley (Larisa Mann)
Jonathan Lethem
E. Michael Harrington
Edgar Garcia

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.