Unit 09

Remix Project

terran@uoregon.edu

AAD 250 project

 

This is the art I created. The words I chose were thoughtful, Deep, Splatter, Personal, Lion, Colorful, Nature, Local, and Flow. Whether this could be art or not is really depending on the person. I think it is art, I do not think it is very good art, but it is art none the less. The main problem is I didn’t make any of these images, but rather found them online and without the permission of the original owner used them to create this collage. I think this is art and I think that anything that is mashed together is art, even if it isn’t very good.

Remix Discussion

terran@uoregon.edu

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.