Tag: <span>intellectual property</span>

If You Sing “Happy Birthday” to the Queen, it’s Not Royalty-Free (haha)

What does it mean to own music? Brett Gaylor’s “open-source documentary” RiP: A Remix Manifesto (2009) is an attack on corporate culture for using copyright laws to silence freedoms of expression. Gaylor explores the flaws of copyright in the information age, suggesting that copyright laws need to make sense for …