Everything Is a Remix Part 3: Apple and the iPhone

Kirby Ferguson · Explainer · YouTube title: Everything is a Remix Part 3 (Original Series, 2011)

Why it's here

Cited in copyright and patent debates to argue that creative works and inventions evolve by building on earlier ones.

What it covers

Part 3 of Kirby Ferguson's Everything is a Remix series, using Apple and the iPhone to show how invention builds on copying and combining prior ideas. It argues that creativity and innovation are inseparable from copying.