Remix culture

Remix culture is a society that allows and encourages derivative works by combining or editing existing materials to produce a new product. A remix culture would be, by default, permissive of efforts to improve upon, change, integrate, or otherwise remix the work of copyright holders. In his book Remix from 2008, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig presents this as a desirable idea. He also created the Creative Commons Licenses which are compatible with a remix culture. The remix culture for cultural works is related and inspired by the earlier Free and open source software for software movement, which encourages the reuse and remixing of software works.

Read-Only Culture vs. Read/Write Culture

The Read Only culture (RO) is the culture consumed more or less passively. The information or product is provided by a 'professional' source, the content industry, that possesses an authority on that particular product/information. Analog technologies (pre-Digital revolution and internet) inherently supported RO culture's business model of production and distribution and limited the role of the consumer to consumption of media.