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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Perhaps it is better for society if the remixers can prosper. (personally I think that they are lame want-to-bes) but there are probably a lot more of them than actual creative people, and it might serve to keep a couple of them in socks and toilet paper.
Helen
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Saying that remixers are uncreative want-to-bes is as wrong as it is snobbish. There's no lack of creativity in taking a classic tale, and giving it a modern retelling or involving characters in new adventures. How many modern classics are based on the works of Shakespeare, or owe something to the brothers Grimm?
You also posit a fantasy version of creativity that involves fresh ideas popping fully formed from the heads of creators, when creators are always influenced in subtle and not so subtle ways by the works of others. We're all want to bes to one extent or another.
Over
here is a fun video that describes some of the remixing George Lucas used in creating Star Wars. No one claim that Lucas "copied" the works of others, but it's obvious from the video, and interviews Lucas has given, how much he owes to the scifi movies of his youth.