Star Wars: Embrace of the Mash-Up

Joseph Laszlo | May 25, 2007, 04:07 PM

As part of the 30th Anniversary celebrations around Star Wars (great, thanks for making me feel EVEN OLDER, Lucasfilm), starwars.com is launching a bunch of new video mash-up features [TV Week], which should be available/promoted on the site sometime today.

Bunches of video and audio clips from the films will be available, via an application provided by Eyespot, that lets people upload their own video and mix, match, and mash.

I find mash-ups and remixes fascinating, a kind of midway point between professionally created and user-generated content. And I'm glad to see an initiative that's embracing them as an expression of fan loyalty, rather than trying to stomp them out as copyright violations.

And I LOVE Chad Vader, though I don't think the average fan will manage anything that funny.