When watching the video, Rip: A Remix Manifesto, at first I was a little confused about the initial idea of the video but as I got further into the video I started to understand it. As the world evolved into the age of technology it became a lot more difficult for artists to have their creations acknowledged, especially musicians, that is where copyright came in because if they were going to work hard to produce music but weren’t getting paid for it then it was just unfair. I believe that their reasoning behind doing this is justified but I also believe that copyleft people are also just trying to ensure that ideas can be exchanged without having to worry about a big lawsuit especially for people that can’t afford it. If there is one thing that definitely stuck with me was the Remixer’s Manifesto: “ culture always builds on the past, the past always tries to control the future, our future is becoming less free, to build free societies you must limit the control of the past”. As well as this quote from a Brazilian man: “ originality is when you mix two things that haven’t been mixed.”
I wouldn’t say I’m either copyright or a copyleft because as much as I believe that people should be free to use other people's work to improve their work or even as inspiration especially since in a world that has been around for ages it has become nearly impossible to create something completely original. I also believe that artists deserve a certain right to their work and should be acknowledged for creating it. But I also believe that copyright takes things to the extreme as it means that we will all commit copyright fraud at least once in our lifetime, just by singing happy birthday we’re going against copyright laws because happy birthday doesn’t belong to the public domain. The only reason copyright laws are so complicated is that humans only care about money, the human race is greedy and selfish and as much as we create wonderful things we tend only care about ourselves, not the rest of humankind, not anyone or anything else in the world; and I’m not saying that all humans are bad but we aren’t as free to create anymore because of laws that we have created and we don’t have anyone else to blame but ourselves, we trapped ourselves because we were creative and that wasn’t right for the corporal minds in the world. When it comes to the idea of the relationship between media production and media consumption you can’t have one without the other. The more media production the more media consumption because people get bored easily so the more there is of one thing to keep you entertained the more time you’ll spend doing that thing like listening to music, people listen to music to pass the time because with music you can dance or sing or even have it a s background noise so that you don’t get bored doing work or an assignment for school. But not everyone likes the same type of music so music industries and artists create a lot of music in a lot of different genres so that people keep listening. On the other hand there is a limit to how much a person can create but the more media consumption the more it enables for more media production. Visual artists use other artists' work all the time but there is always a limit. As I have stated before it is nearly impossible to create something completely original which is why artists tend to take inspiration from other artists, take Pinterest for example an app that was created for the sole purpose of bringing inspiration to other artists as well as displaying your art in the process, everyone knows that when you post something on Pinterest there is always a chance another artist could try to recreate it or use it to create something similar. Artists even use references all the time especially when creating portraits and there is no issue with this because all artists need some inspiration when creating a masterpiece. But there is a point where everyone has to say that's enough because there is a difference between taking some elements from another person's work and plagiarism. Personally as an artist one of my greatest fears is to copy another artist's work which is why i'm always careful with my references and the places i take my inspiration from because I never want to take another person's work that they probably worked really hard on and probably spend a lot of time on and pass it as my own.
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