As the recent copyright woes of Obama poster artist Shepard Fairey show, there’s a war raging over what some now are calling a new art form in the emerging Web 2.0 culture—remix. Broadly defined, ...

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Whether you thought of the 2000s emo-punk boom as watershed moment or the nadir of modern music, there's one song from that era that's hard to forget. Fall Out Boy's first major hit, "Sugar, We're ...

The concept of marketing has transitioned. Advertisements have moved away from being passive announcements to being designs people can participate in. Brands are now designing illustrations that their ...

Spanning the light bulb, Led Zeppelin, Apple’s first computer and Star Wars, Kirby Ferguson’s sweeping, four-part documentary series asserts that all creative work is a recombination and ...

On a weekend when George Clooney’s The Monuments Men, once touted as an Oscar contender, is meeting with distinctly diffident reviews, the critical favorite is, let’s see here… The LEGO Movie? Indeed, ...

Bollywood singer Neha Kakkar is facing severe backlash for recreating Falguni Pathak's iconic song "Maine Payal Hai Chhankai." Many musicians and social media users have called out remix culture, or ...