As a big media consumer, sometimes the consumers know what the audience wants, better than the media producers. For example, when there’s an ending to a movie or show people don’t like, there will be alternatives written or animated to give the audience what they thought was better. When there’s a song thats amazing but with slight adjustments and remixes, it could become even more enjoyable than it was before.
A film we were shown in our VAM class was about copyright in media and in art. With copyright, ideas are intellectual property, and they are locked until they’ve been purchased. Then, there’s copyleft. Copyleft is said to be sharing ideas with the public domain protected, with free exchange of ideas and for the future of art and culture. My initial thoughts watching this was, that there is a lot behind the media I consume on a daily basis that I wasn’t aware about. However, I am copyleft and I think, it’s okay for work and creativity to bloom from others previous work. Some songs I love were sampled or inspired by old classics, and I think there’s nothing wrong with it. In fact, looking at previous works, incorporating them into your own may give you ideas and room for growth. At one point in this film, they talked with a registrar of copyrights and she said “you can’t argue your creativity when it’s based on other peoples stuff.” This arguement made me feel a little ticked, because everyone who creates has used other peoples work, whether it’s based off of it, or if it’s indirectly inspired by it. In the end, there’s a fine line between sampling or inspiration from a piece of art/media, and copying the content. If the originality or creativity isn’t whats being highlighted in the remixed work, then that’s simply a duplicate. Copyleft isn’t simply copying things. It’s not taking a song, messing around with it and posting it on the internet. It’s taking a song and changing it, rearranging it and adding your own personality to it. Having your artwork based off of another artwork or a reference isn’t tracing or slightly altering it. It’s using your own unique style to take something that was good, and making it into something that is great.
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