EDM613 Wk1, post 3: Response to Angela Alipour

Photo by Jason Peglow (2004)

@ Media Asset Creation Blog (original post by Angela Alipour on March 31, 2011)

The more I hear about copyright and people's opinions the more I begin to think about other reasons besides money. Don't get me wrong, I totally think money has A LOT to do with most people's reasoning for taking someone to court over illegal use of their work. However, not ALL cases are about the money. For example, someone who designs something in memory of their loved one and then sees that design being used as a death metal band's symbol on an album might cause a copyright dispute. I guess what I mean to say is money has a lot to do with it, but sometimes people want their creations or expressions to mean something and protect it from meaning something else. The only way to protect it is to copyright it. 

Media Asset Creation Blog: Wk 1 Reading

(Posted by Angela Alipour on Thursday, March 31, 2011)

When push comes to shove the copy write laws are all about the money. Who can get the most money and how. What’s wrong with someone taking your work and creating something else out of it as long as they give you the credit for being the inspiration of their creation? Especially when they can make it better. If we can do this with text why not film and music? Don’t those people get paid enough? Actually I think that many of them get overpaid.

One of the people that spoke in the video said that an artist needs copy write laws as an incentive to create. Yeah, right! When someone is creating they are not thinking about copy write laws. They are creating.

With the Fair Use law it’s good to know that there is a law that can cover your behind if you need it too. Of course it has to meet the criteria of critical comment, teaching, parody, and news reporting. Even under these circumstances one needs to be careful.

I was happy to know that Creative Commons is available for creators. The saying two brains are better than one is what came to mind when I saw this video. Sharing a personal idea or creation with another person can sometimes cause the other person to elaborate on that idea and the final result can be spectacular.

As I’ve been watching more and more videos about this I find that the music industry seems to have a real issue about copy writing. Wish I would have known about Creative Commons during the FSO music class.