I watched both the TedTalk and the mashup of the Beatles and Jay-Z video. I think that copyright laws make music like that mashup impossible. I do agree that copyright laws are better for creative processes because it incentivizes people to create something new and profit off of their creation. Like any invention, people want to be recognized for what they have done so copyright and paten laws are in place for a reason. At the same time, as Larry Lessig was saying in his TedTalk video “Laws that choke creativity” the laws that prohibit the use of copy-written material in a non competitive way is bad because it destroys the creative process’ of some young adults in our society. Also as Lessig says about the young children of today, we and them are formed by television, by technology and we use other peoples thought process’ to form our own and in some cases change their’s in a way to discover our own technology. I think that copyright laws should be limited because I think people’s creativity comes from observing current works, and that some people have a talent of mixing music together like the Beatles and Jay-Z music video, music that would never be created without someone breaking the rules.
that is a interesting idea that copy right is helping people to creative new things like song and article or ideas. but what i think that copy right is limited people`s imagination about new things. people will have hard time to challenge the old one and will not be success in certain area. i think copyright should be canceled that could help people with more option about what to do next. people that have more creativeness would have more chance to do something new. but what about people that are average? they will have no space to creative things and will always follow others.
Hi, I agree with your opinion that copyright should be limited for current society, as you wrote that we are formed by technology, or Lessig talked in TED that we are in RW culture. we can mix other people’s thought or artwork to create new one, but the current law prevent this kind of creativity. So I think copyright should be changed that it do not limited for other people use.