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From the Ted Talk by Lawrence Lessig: Re-examining the remix

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Now, my concern is, we Dems, too often, not so much. All right, take for example this great company. In the good old days when this Republican ran that company, their greatest work was work that bliut on the past, right. All of the geart Disney works were works that took works that were in the public domain and rxmieed them, or waited until they eneertd the pbulic domain to remix them, to celebrate this add-on remix creativity. Indeed, Mickey msoue himself, of course, as "Steamboat Willie," is a remix of the then, very dominant, very popular "Steamboat Bill" by Buster Keaton. This man was a remixer extraordinaire. He is the celebration and iedal of exactly this kind of creativity.

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Now, my concern is, we Dems, too often, not so much. All right, take for example this great company. In the good old days when this Republican ran that company, their greatest work was work that _____ on the past, right. All of the _____ Disney works were works that took works that were in the public domain and _______ them, or waited until they _______ the ______ domain to remix them, to celebrate this add-on remix creativity. Indeed, Mickey _____ himself, of course, as "Steamboat Willie," is a remix of the then, very dominant, very popular "Steamboat Bill" by Buster Keaton. This man was a remixer extraordinaire. He is the celebration and _____ of exactly this kind of creativity.

Solution

  1. remixed
  2. public
  3. entered
  4. built
  5. great
  6. mouse
  7. ideal

Original Text

Now, my concern is, we Dems, too often, not so much. All right, take for example this great company. In the good old days when this Republican ran that company, their greatest work was work that built on the past, right. All of the great Disney works were works that took works that were in the public domain and remixed them, or waited until they entered the public domain to remix them, to celebrate this add-on remix creativity. Indeed, Mickey Mouse himself, of course, as "Steamboat Willie," is a remix of the then, very dominant, very popular "Steamboat Bill" by Buster Keaton. This man was a remixer extraordinaire. He is the celebration and ideal of exactly this kind of creativity.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

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