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Copyright is always something that not many people know about, unless you experience a program/course like this. We've ALL done it. Burned a CD/DVD? downloaded music/movies? At one point in our lives we ALL have done it... perhaps unknowingly, but we've done it. GirlTalk? I LOVE his stuff. It's different...but then again it's the same. I understand people need copyright to protect their stuff and give credit where credit is due, but some stuff personally I think gets a little too complicated. I mean, I've made some instructional videos that I was pretty proud of. If someone used them and claimed them as their own, sure I'd be mad. But as long as they say "Hey, this was made by Kelly Grapentine," I'd be ok. But that's just me. Can't we all just "share share that's fair"? Never! Whenever I think about copyright I always think of Vanilla Ice, and how he used Queen's and David Bowie's "Under Pressure" beat. I remember an interview on VH1 or MTV where Vanilla Ice tries to explain "no no, it's different. Their song was bum bum bum bada bum bum, while MY song was bum bum bada bum bum..." You get the picture. It sounded ridiculous. But then after seeing this video I got it. You can stretch a beat out so that it sounds completely different, and yet it's the same, and the people who altered the original can get sued. It's mind boggling. If it sounds that much different, why bother fighting? That's why I'm glad we have things like Creative Commons, which I discovered in a previous class. While Creative Commons does not have EVERYTHING a person might want, it has many things that are usable. I mostly enjoy it for the pictures. But it's an option for people like me who don't want to be yelled at for borrowing things for various uses!
I'm also glad to have the Creative Commons Option. I like the way it also gives me-the-creator control options. I think many creators would share their work- especially for educational purposes and be flattered by its use.
ReplyDeleteIn your example siting controversy over the use of a certain beat, I get really confused. It seems to me that there are only a certain limited, if you will..., number of combinations of beats. If it's been altered, how can it be a copyright issue? I mean, surely I'm missing something here. To use what seems to me to be a similar yet simple Art example:
If someone has a circle and a few lines
in their painting, and if I use a circle
and a few lines in my painting, then can
I be accused of copyright infringement? If
so, there's going to be a finite amount of
creators out there eventually.
Maybe I just don't know enough about music to understand the difference. I'm not trying to be argumentative; just trying to understand.
Haha- I thought I had this settled in my mind... and here we go again. It's easy to understand why there's controversy.
Kelly--I agree with you about the wealth of information and the usability of Creative Commons. With services such as this, there really is no excuse to consider using somebody else's content with our permission. Well one excuse, laziness or ignorance. With those factors aside, I too was really happy when finding Creative Commons as it made it so very easy to find what is needed.
ReplyDeleteAnd oh, wow . . . Vanilla Ice--that brings back memories.
The system is definitely broken but it's not hopeless and the power is with the actual creative (not the corporations) and the media lover. We're one email message away from either getting permission or finding the creative who understands that we want them to be able to continue to do what they love.
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