The documentary brought up some very interesting points and made me aware of some stuff that I was unaware of that is quite crazy or unfair you can say. Culture builds on the past was a very prevalent key message and I can see that in the current world. I know and find out that more and more songs that I listen to or heard of have been sampled generation after generation across all different genres even. I have heard that a certain artist did not obtain permission to sample an artist’s music and now has to pay a portion of the money he makes off the song. I believe permission should be asked and credit should be given and the artist should be compensated after all it is their work. This is if it’s directly to the artist nowadays big corporations are profiting off every little thing. Many steps and paperwork and processes have to be gone through to achieve the process of legally remixing or sampling music. everything costs money which limits creativity like Brett Gaylor expresses. I also see the other point of view where it’s said for example girl talks creativity is based on what other people have done. In a way I understand that how one may think or say that doesn’t seem very original but everything is built off something else. Most of the time a person’s originality, thought or creation is based on something they say or heard somewhere. How can we judge or say something is original or to what extent if our ideas come from other things we have seen or heard before. It’s what you are able to add to something and create a different variation that could make something original or different. With certain copyright laws we lose the possibility of something great being created and criminalizing something as mediocre as downloading or singing a copyrighted song. Freedom of speech but also being criminalized for singing happy birthday seems overboard and the royalties were not even being paid to the creators of happy birthday or their families it was paid to Warner Music. A song that is very popular to a lot of people for a very long time has only recently been in the public domain.