I really enjoyed watching the documentary film, ‘RiP: A Remix Manifesto’. The film was very interesting and at the same time, it was a very good chance to learn and think of the importance about copyright, or property laws.
the Development of mass media, especially network system make easier for people to enjoy and contact to many of creative works. Moreover, many of simple and free programs led people’s direct participation of making or editing their own works.
Let’s think about the Youtube, the most famous web site to watching and uploading a video and music. From the giant corporations like Disney, Coca Cola, United airlines, to an ordinary person like me and my friends, so many pages for the various purpose, are existing and letting people upload their works. We can share everything on youtube, from political social problems to personal hobbies.
However, not everything on the youtube is legal things. Sometimes, we can see the video is blocked due to the original writher, or composer’s claim about the copyright. What is copyright? Copyright is a form of protection given to the authors or creators of “original works of authorship,” including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic and other intellectual works.
A remix is a media that adding, changing and removing the original state of the items like songs, books, video or photograph. It is kind of creating something new based on the existing creatures. Remix becomes more and more popular with the development of mass media. Do you think the remixing other’s works is a stealing? My view of this issue is, it is depend on the situations. If someone using original soundtrack without crediting the original composer and making money with this remix song, it can be treated as stealing. However, crediting and using the originals properly can be a good for both original author and the editor like DJ and many of Youtuber.
Media becoming a kind of an industry. A big industry. Therefore, the issues dealing with the copyright will become serious problems and will getting worse. Artists like musicians and composers should be protected form stealing of their works. They should be compensated from people who using their works.
