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Remix Reading

Meghan Hawk
ENC 2135

After reading Lessig's reading, "Remix", it made me take a step back to realize how serious copyright issues can be taken to a large company, popular musician, or a well known artist. In many cases, I understand the rights to claimed ideas and that they should not be appropriated in instance that exploits them and a non-creator takes credit for the owners' ideas. However, the first situation where a mother was sued for $150,000 over a YouTube video of her child dancing to a Prince song, it a little outrageous. Because YouTube's videos become monetized once they reach a certain numbers of views and it went viral, Prince and his administration immediately saw a problem, which in a sense I can understand, but it wasn't necessary to come at the mother for publicizing a video that made her happy. In other cases, I believe that if you chose to create a new work based off an others idea, you must give them credit, despite  believing that it is "original". There are no original thoughts--everything has derived from a previous idea.

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  1. Katherine KumpfApril 16, 2018 at 7:43 PM

    The article also made me realize how serious musicians and artists take copyright issues.

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  2. UnknownApril 17, 2018 at 7:19 AM

    I agree, when people are working on new works based off of other artists ideas, they should definitely give the artist credit.

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  3. sydney meyerApril 17, 2018 at 7:37 AM

    The article also made me realize how important copyrights are and that it can become a very serious issue if misused.

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