Saturday, April 23, 2011

Blog #12

Hello my friends! This is my last blog for class =D
Lessig and Rip! have several connections. First, we have the ideas of commercial and non commercial licenses. Lessig talks on how most artist produce their work under "all rights reserved" were no one is allowed to share, reproduce or sample the work. But also there are artist that give a "non commercial license" were the author of an art piece allows other people to take its work, but once it goes into a commercial economy then the author needs to authorize the use. in Rip!, Girl Talk stated how commercial economies in music slow down the production of culture. Moreover, some laws were changed in order to make it even harder for works to get into the public domain. Disney was the main posher to move from 14 to 90 years for works to get in the public domain.
Both Girl Talk and Lessing talk about the definition of "appropiately", the appropiate use of something. Girl Talk said that most of the time, no one is able to take a piece of music and sample it. It would take thousands of dollars in order to "appropiately" use the work and release a cd. When he created a piece of music in front of the lady in charge of copyright laws in the US (cant remember her title, sorry) and she said that she can see a problem with the remix because nothing was beign used appropiately. Lessig says many sharing economies take place and we all participate in them without knowing. He uses the example of Google, were we use google as a search engine and get information from them and google uses our "click" to collect pieces of information they can later use. he then raises the question - Is that appropiate use of our clicks? is google riding on your work for free? (lessig 234)
Lessig suggest that a hybrid can help decriminalize youth's creativity. But he state also that it would take change in the law in order to have more healthy and succesful business (lessig 248). Girl Talk suggest that by ackoliging someone that you took its work, kinda like when you cite a paper, should be good enough. This is because you are not stealing from anyone you are creating an original piece of art with the inspiration of others, just like disney did...

3 comments:

  1. I think it is crazy if everyone got their "share" of the money that it takes to create one song! Lessig is all about that RW. Which I am too.

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  2. I think that the dissension that shows in those of our age group will win out in the end. Eventually everyone will forget why copyright even exists and at that point the laws will change. I do no think it will happen before then because America is the land of the dollar where money is the last word in every fight.

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  3. Exactly. Not everyone realizes that the creators of intellectual property also need to change how their works are released. To change copyright laws it will take both artists and consumers to change. Or perhaps copyright law will just no longer mean anything. I also agree with the other comments regarding money. It's all about the money or rather all about the greed.

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