Definitions

 [|Remix culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedi]a
 * excerpt** - "Remix culture is a term employed by Lawrence Lessig and other copyright activists to describe a society which allows and encourages derivative works. Such a culture would be, by default, permissive of efforts to improve upon, change, integrate, or otherwise remix the work of copyright holders. Lessig presents this as a desirable ideal and argues, among other things, that the health, progress, and wealth creation of a culture is fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process."

[|Sampling (music) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]
 * excerpt** - "In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a different sound recording of a song. This is typically done with a sampler, which can be a piece of hardware or a computer program on a digital computer. Sampling is also possible with tape loops or with vinyl records on a phonograph."

[|Permission culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]
 * excerpt** - "Permission culture is a term often employed by Lawrence Lessig and other copyright activists to describe a society in which copyright restrictions are pervasive and enforced to the extent that any and all uses of copyrighted works need to be explicitly leased. This has both economic and social implications: in such a society, copyright holders could require payment for each use of a work and, perhaps more importantly, permission to make any sort of derivative work. This term is often contrasted with remix culture."

A [|mashup]
 * excerpt** - "bootleg or blend (also mash up and mash-up) is a song or composition created from the combination of the music from one song with the [|a cappella] from another. A mash-up is a song created out of pieces of two or more songs, usually by overlaying the vocal track of one song seamlessly over the music track of another. "

[|Creative Commons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]
 * excerpt** -"**Creative Commons (CC)** is a [|non-profit organization] devoted to expanding the range of [|creative] works available for others to build upon legally and to share.[|[][|1][|]] The organization has released several copyright licenses known as [|Creative Commons licenses]. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they [|waive] for the benefit of other creators."

[|Attribution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]
 * excerpt** - "In [|copyright] law, **attribution** is the requirement to acknowledge or credit the author of a work which is used or appears in another work. Attribution is required by most [|copyright] and [|copyleft] licenses, such as [|GNUFDL] and [|CC-by]."

[|Copyleft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]
 * excerpt** -"**Copyleft** is a [|play] on the word [|copyright] to describe the practice of using copyright law to remove restrictions on distributing copies and modified versions of a work for others and requiring that the same freedoms be preserved in modified versions."

[|Public Domain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]
 * excerpt** -"The **public domain** is a range of abstract materials—commonly referred to as [|intellectual property]—which are not owned or controlled by anyone. The term indicates that these materials are therefore "public property", and available for anyone to use for any purpose."