Remix Culture refers to combining and editing of existing materials to produce a new product. Videos can be changed, edited, improved, sampled and altered. There are many controversies such as copyright laws and owner rights to the original videos.

Remixing videos can refer to any change, whether it be the music, the footage or the design/format of the video.

Lawrence Lessig is a political activist who is a proponent of reduced legal restrictions such as copyright and trademark.

Lessig supports the use of open source software and remix culture, having produced books and theories on this subject matter.

Lessig's book "Remix" discusses the simplicity and availability of of remix technologies and copyright law.

"Whether text or beyond text, remix is collage; it comes from combining elements of RO culture; it succeeds by leveraging the meaning created by the reference to create something new" - Lawrence Lessig, Remix pg. 76

This quote from "Remix" shows how remixing can be seen as an art form and uses current, existing material in order to make something new.

Remix culture is not just limited to a digital nature. Remixing can relate to anything such as a static and fixed work such as posters, a magazine or book cover.

If an existing material is being altered, edited or added to then it is classed as remixing.

Remixing is often