New York film director Kirby Ferguson has just released the final instalment of his very popular miniseries Everything is a Remix.

Started about a year ago, the series is divided into four parts. It covers everything from the most obvious forms of the remix (music) to how remixes are used in film, writing, comedy, and so on and so forth.

He makes a strong case for copying, showing how no ideas are truly new, but actually just interesting variations on something that already existed.

Ferguson also touches on the origins of innovation and creativity by delving into historical breakthroughs, stories you probably think you know inside out. Ferguson demonstrates that even the best known “inventions” weren’t inventions at all.

For example, Thomas Edison didn’t invent the light bulb (he patented it,) to how the model for the original apple computer was in fact a computer with a graphical interface that Xerox developed but never went through with.

Ferguson also delves into intellectual property, which is a great way to conclude the series. Whereas patent laws were originally developed to encourage creativity and development, he shows us how the opposite has occurred.

If you haven’t seen them yet, check out part 1, part 2 and part 3.

Not one to sit idle, he’s already started to develop a new project titled This is Not a Conspiracy Theory, where he plans to use his story telling talent to take on global politics which you canhere.