Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy is Lawrence Lessig's fifth book. It is available as a free download under a Creative Commons license. It details a hypothesis about the societal effect of the Internet, and how this will affect production and consumption of popular culture.
Summary
In RemixLawrence Lessig, a Harvard law professor and a respected voice in what he deems the "copyright wars", describes the disjuncture between the availability and relative simplicity of remix technologies and copyright law. Lessig insists that copyright law as it stands now is antiquated for digital media since every "time you use a creative work in a digital context, the technology is making a copy" (98). Thus, amateur use and appropriation of digital technology is under unprecedented control that previously extended only to professional use.
Lessig insists that knowledge and manipulation of multi-media technologies is the current generation's form of "literacy"- what reading and writing was to the previous. It is the vernacular of today. The children growing up in a world where these technologies permeate their daily life are unable to comprehend why "remixing" is illegal. Lessig insists that amateur appropriation in the digital age cannot be stopped but only 'criminalized'. Thus most corrosive outcome of this tension is that generations of children are growing up doing what they know is "illegal" and that notion has societal implications that extend far beyond copyright wars. The book is now available as a free download under one of the Creative Commons' licenses.
Microsoft Video 1 or MS-CRAM is an early lossy video compression and decompression algorithm (codec) that was released with version 1.0 of Microsoft'sVideo for Windows in November 1992. It is based on MotiVE, a vector quantization codec which Microsoft licensed from Media Vision. In 1993, Media Vision marketed the Pro Movie Spectrum, an ISA board that captured video in both raw and MSV1 formats (the MSV1 processing was done in hardware on the board).
Compression algorithm
Microsoft Video 1 operates either in a 8-bitpalettized color space or in a 15-bit RGB color space. Each frame is split into 4×4 pixel blocks. Each 4×4 pixel block can be coded in one of three modes: skip, 2-color or 8-color. In skip mode, the content from the previous frame is copied to the current frame in a conditional replenishment fashion. In 2-color mode, two colors per 4×4 block are transmitted, and 1 bit per pixel is used to select between the two colors. In 8-color mode, the same scheme applies with 2 colors per 2×2 block. This can be interpreted as a 2-color palette which is locally adapted on either a 4×4 block basis or a 2×2 block basis. Interpreted as vector quantization, vectors with components red, green, and blue are quantized using a forward adaptive codebook with two entries.
A referee is the person of authority in a variety of sports who is responsible for presiding over the game from a neutral point of view and making on-the-fly decisions that enforce the rules of the sport, including sportsmanship decisions such as ejection. The official tasked with this job may be known, in addition to referee, by a variety of other titles as well (often depending on the sport), including umpire, judge, arbiter, arbitrator, linesman, commissaire, timekeeper, touch judge or Technical Official (by the International Olympic Committee).
Origin
The term referee originated in association football. Originally the team captains would consult with each other in order to resolve any dispute on the pitch. Eventually this role was delegated to an umpire. Each team would bring their own partisan umpire allowing the team captains to concentrate on the game. Later, the referee, a third "neutral" official was added, this referee would be "referred to" if the umpires could not resolve a dispute. The referee did not take his place on the pitch until 1891, when the umpires became linesmen (now assistant referees). Today, in many amateur football matches, each side will still supply their own partisan assistant referees (still commonly called club linesmen) to assist the neutral referee appointed by the governing football association if one or both assistant referees are not provided. In this case, the role of the linesmen is limited to indicating out of play and cannot decide off side.
A saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness, or likeness to God. While the English term "saint" originated in Christianity, historians of religion now use the appellation "in a more general way to refer to the state of special holiness that many religions attribute to certain people," with the Jewish Tzadik, the Islamic Mu'min, the Hindu rishi or Sikh guru, and the Buddhist arhat or bodhisattva also being referred to as "saints". Depending on the religion, saints are recognized either by official ecclesiastical declaration/denomination or by popular acclamation (see folk saints).
In Christianity, "saint" has a wide variety of meanings, depending on the context and denomination. The original Christian denotation was any believer who is "in Christ" and in whom Christ dwells, whether in Heaven or on earth. In Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic doctrine, all of their faithful deceased in Heaven are considered to be saints, but some are considered worthy of greater honor, emulation, or veneration, with official ecclesiastical recognition given to some saints by canonization or glorification.
With one day to go, the Romney campaign sets up election night headquarters in Boston.
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Election 2012: Mitt Romney Campaign Behind the Scenes
David Muir takes you inside the campaign of the Republican presidential candidate.
published: 06 Nov 2012
Mitt Romney Returns Home
ABC News' David Muir discusses where the Republican Party goes from here.
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2012 Presidential Election: Mitt Romney's, President Obama's Campaign Event Strategy
Jake Tapper looks at the candidates' final events to come right before the election.
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Romney Launches 2012 Presidential Campaign
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In a speech in Stratham, New Hampshire Thursday former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney said President Obama has "failed America" and pledged economic reforms to "bring this country back." Romney is widely considered the frontrunner for the Republican nomination.
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Barack Obama, Mitt Romney: Women's Votes in 2012 Election
Both the president and Mitt Romney campaigned hard for the support of female voters.
published: 06 Nov 2012
2012 Presidential Election: Romney, Obama's Final Campaign Moments
Jake Tapper, David Muir, Matt Dowd have the latest from the campaign trail.
published: 03 Nov 2012
Mitt Romney Comments on President Obama's Win in 2012 Election
David Muir has the latest on the GOP candidate's failed bid for the White House.
published: 15 Nov 2012
A Loss That Stunned a Confident Campaign
A look at how Mitt and Ann Romney ended their most painful week in politics.
David Muir follows the GOP candidate's final push to become the next president.
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Mitt Romney Video: Campaign Does Damage Control
Hidden camera captures GOP presidential candidate's "off the cuff" remarks. For more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/mitt-romneys-47-percent-pay-income-taxes/story?id=17263629
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2012 Presidential Election Betweeen Barack Obama, Mitt Romney: Obama Expects a Long Night
Jake Tapper tracks the latest from the president's campaign headquarters.
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published: 07 Nov 2012
Mitt Romney Spends Final Campaign Hours in Ohio
ABC News' David Muir on Governor Romney's strategy for the last day before the election.
published: 06 Nov 2012
2012 Election Debates: President Obama, Mitt Romney Countdown to Confrontation
Mixed messages as both candidates try to lower expectations.
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In a speech in Stratham, New Hampshire Thursday former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney said President Obama has "failed...
For more: http://to.pbs.org/kCBaQ2
In a speech in Stratham, New Hampshire Thursday former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney said President Obama has "failed America" and pledged economic reforms to "bring this country back." Romney is widely considered the frontrunner for the Republican nomination.
For more: http://to.pbs.org/kCBaQ2
In a speech in Stratham, New Hampshire Thursday former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney said President Obama has "failed America" and pledged economic reforms to "bring this country back." Romney is widely considered the frontrunner for the Republican nomination.
David Muir follows the GOP candidate's final push to become the next president.
For more on this story, click here: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/electio...
David Muir follows the GOP candidate's final push to become the next president.
For more on this story, click here: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/election-day-obama-works-romney-works-crowd/story?id=17651259
David Muir follows the GOP candidate's final push to become the next president.
For more on this story, click here: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/election-day-obama-works-romney-works-crowd/story?id=17651259
Hidden camera captures GOP presidential candidate's "off the cuff" remarks. For more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/mitt-romneys-47-percent-pay-income-tax...
Hidden camera captures GOP presidential candidate's "off the cuff" remarks. For more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/mitt-romneys-47-percent-pay-income-taxes/story?id=17263629
Hidden camera captures GOP presidential candidate's "off the cuff" remarks. For more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/mitt-romneys-47-percent-pay-income-taxes/story?id=17263629
Jake Tapper tracks the latest from the president's campaign headquarters.
For more on this story, click here: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/african-ameri...
Jake Tapper tracks the latest from the president's campaign headquarters.
For more on this story, click here: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/african-americans-voting-jubilance-loyalty-election-2012/story?id=17655594
Jake Tapper tracks the latest from the president's campaign headquarters.
For more on this story, click here: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/african-americans-voting-jubilance-loyalty-election-2012/story?id=17655594
For more: http://to.pbs.org/kCBaQ2
In a speech in Stratham, New Hampshire Thursday former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney said President Obama has "failed America" and pledged economic reforms to "bring this country back." Romney is widely considered the frontrunner for the Republican nomination.
David Muir follows the GOP candidate's final push to become the next president.
For more on this story, click here: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/election-day-obama-works-romney-works-crowd/story?id=17651259
Hidden camera captures GOP presidential candidate's "off the cuff" remarks. For more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/mitt-romneys-47-percent-pay-income-taxes/story?id=17263629
Jake Tapper tracks the latest from the president's campaign headquarters.
For more on this story, click here: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/african-americans-voting-jubilance-loyalty-election-2012/story?id=17655594
Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy is Lawrence Lessig's fifth book. It is available as a free download under a Creative Commons license. It details a hypothesis about the societal effect of the Internet, and how this will affect production and consumption of popular culture.
Summary
In RemixLawrence Lessig, a Harvard law professor and a respected voice in what he deems the "copyright wars", describes the disjuncture between the availability and relative simplicity of remix technologies and copyright law. Lessig insists that copyright law as it stands now is antiquated for digital media since every "time you use a creative work in a digital context, the technology is making a copy" (98). Thus, amateur use and appropriation of digital technology is under unprecedented control that previously extended only to professional use.
Lessig insists that knowledge and manipulation of multi-media technologies is the current generation's form of "literacy"- what reading and writing was to the previous. It is the vernacular of today. The children growing up in a world where these technologies permeate their daily life are unable to comprehend why "remixing" is illegal. Lessig insists that amateur appropriation in the digital age cannot be stopped but only 'criminalized'. Thus most corrosive outcome of this tension is that generations of children are growing up doing what they know is "illegal" and that notion has societal implications that extend far beyond copyright wars. The book is now available as a free download under one of the Creative Commons' licenses.