THE VIDEO SHELF · creativity and copying
Everything is a Remix Part 3 (Original Series, 2011)
Part 3 of Kirby Ferguson's Everything is a Remix series, using Apple and the iPhone to show how invention builds on copying and combining prior ideas. It argues that creativity and innovation are inseparable from copying.
Why HN readers recommended it
Cited in copyright and patent debates to argue that creative works and inventions evolve by building on earlier ones.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Kirby Ferguson
- Topic
- creativity and copying
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 6
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2011–2018
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From the original HN conversations
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Parent and grandparent, take some deep breadths and relax. Please don't quibble. Then watch this rather insightful video titled 'Everything is a Remix' [VIDEO] And pardon me, for coming off as arrogant, but I hate to see trivial fights here when you are missing the …
kubrickslair on Hacker News · 2011-08
In Apple changed everything? Yeah, right.Look around in any industry you want. How would you define competition, if nothing but very similar products to the original product of that type in that particular market? This video describes very well how inventions get created and then evolve for the benefit of …
nextparadigms on Hacker News · 2012-02
In If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone
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