Remixing it Up!

March 8, 2015

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Copyrights: A Huge Mix

March 4, 2015

In my view and opinion, copyright holds are valuable to the modern global society. They are especially valuable in making sure that people or artists use their own ideas, thoughts, or creativity. In the article Remix by Lessig the author provides the insight of Charles Sims who states, “young creators should turn away from their “derivative” form of creativity. They should focus on something really challenging – “original creativity” (Lassig 91)”. Sims is arguing for artists to use their own creativity to develop and create their work rather than “deriving” it from others ideas and work. In other words be truly unique in the creative process. Start from scratch so to speak. This is where copyright holds can really be helpful and valuable to modern society. Without the copyrights then artists and people work can just be copied and added onto etc. This is almost the opposite as to what is seen in The Amen Break video. In the video it contributes the lack of new music over a past few decades to the harsh copyright regulations. This protects the artist and their work as well as allows true creativity to develop and come out. I do not believe that their needs to any limitation to modern copyright laws or regulations. But that being said I also do not believe that these regulations should be strengthened. At some point if there are too many laws or regulations regarding copyrighting then this will deter artists from creating new art because of fear of persecution and or penalty.

 


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