Rethinking Copyright
What does it mean to live in a "remix culture"?
Everything that we do and everything we listen to or everything we see now a days seems to be a remix of something that happened in previous years. Things come in circles like clothing for example, bell bottoms were popular in the 70's and came back around in the 90's. High wasted pants and wedge platforms were also popular in that time frame but have come back around in the 2000's. Remix doesn't only have to do with music it can used for all types of media and pop culture. Movie remakes are another thing that come to mind when I think about a remix culture. Take the movie "The Great Gatsby" will be released on Christmas this year and is based off of the book from 1922. This is considered part of the remix culture as well.
Who benefits from copyright? Who is constrained?
Copyright laws benefit the creators to control use of their matierial. When someone wants to samply anothers work it has to be approved, therefore, if the creator doesn't like the format in which their material would be used in then they don't have to approve it. I think that it gives the creator the right in which they should have had in the first place to say what and who can use their work. The other people that want to use the original creators material could be constrained if they don't get approval or it takes longer than expected their material could be on hold.
How do copyleft and creative commons differ from the traditional copyright laws?
Copyleft provides a method for software or documentation to be modified and distributed back into the community, creative commons helps you share your knowledge, creativity develops, supports and stewards legal abd technical infrastructure that maximize digital creativity, sharing an innovation while copyright laws protect the author or artist of original work from unauthorized copying or selling of their work.
Who are some of the leaders in challenging traditional copyright laws?
Since all the new technology has come about and it has gotten so easy to post things on the internet, the people who really challenge these copyright laws are the ones of the new digital age. With sites like you tube it is very simple to post a video with blurps of other peoples work and not have to get any type of approval before posting.
To sample or be sampled........
Jay Z has samplec many other artists work in his rap career of 16+ years. Including Nina Simone's song Feeling Good originally released in 1965 and sampled by Jay Z with his song New Day in 2011. Jay Z has sampled somewhere around 450 different times but has had his music sampled just as much, around 420 times, by other artists.
patentsoffice.ie/en/copyright_benefits.apx
whosampled.com
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I definately agree that things come in circles for example what was cool in the 90s is being exposed in todays society for example onld school jerseys and big head phones.
ReplyDeleteI dont think sampling is bad i just believe that the artist should give credit to the music they took from. I also think that the lyrics make its own originality and creatively.