Archives for November 2014

I really enjoyed that “RiP: A Remix Manifesto,” is an activist documentary about copyright against the limit in freedom of digital art. It’s interesting that art has many political and business restrictions. I found that we have the ability of creating anything but the issue starts when the artist want to publish their work to share with others.

I had to laugh when Marybeth Peters the resister of copyright worker said, “you can’t base your creativity off of other people’s stuff.” This made me think of artist like painters and photographers who are inspired by other artist’s work and create their own unique piece that are completely different. In interview featuring Florence the main singer of the band Florence and the Machine, she said when she was writing one of her songs; it was inspired by a beat from a Rihanna song. With that beat she started she developed her top hit song “The Dog Days Are Over.” Artists are usually inspired by other artist’s work and by being inspired they create a piece that is unique to the creator.

The documentary expresses that when people are enjoying listening to music they don’t think about what copyrights the song may be facing, I’m just feeling the emotions or the vibe the music is making me feel. It’s like when we watch movies, many of can say we aren’t thinking about the company’s that own the rights but about the characters. If you like filmmaking you might be paying attention to the production and the budget of the film.

I do think it’s sad that there are so many restrictions in movie making, music, and art because it creates a larger antisocial creative environment. There was a part of the documentary where they spoke about artist having a conversations with each others work. This brought me back to a time where I was taking a creative writing class where we we’re focusing on writing and reading poetry. One of the students wrote a poem and read it out loud. The professor commented saying that one of the lines of the poem was the exact line of a poem we had read. The student frankly started to say he didn’t notice but she stopped him and said that he was having a conversation with the poet. No penalties, this experience has stood with me and I enjoyed that the documentary mentioned that.

I do believe that credit should be given to all artist that contribute to an artist work. Sampling is a bit more sensitive since the artist like Girl Talk, is using bits and pieces of others work and manipulating them to their own. Since these artist are working in collaboration there should be credit given.

 

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