The remix reading talks about several different examples of copyright situations between singers and people using their music as other forms of entertainment. In my opinion, some of these examples are crazy. The court case between Prince and the mother of the 18 month old baby was taken too far. The mother had no intentions of taking Prince's music, she simply just wanted to show her baby dancing to one of his songs because she thought it was cute and funny. The reading also compares copyright laws to other countries, and how they use music, media, and entertainment in other cultures. Another example in the reading was a girl making a project about what goes into becoming a celebrity. She had used a picture of John Lennon in her project and was later prosecuted for the use of the picture. Both copyright arguments went through court for a long time, and faced threats of having to pay several thousands in fees for using the musicians ideas. It seems like the people in each example are unaware of the copyright laws. If people were more aware, then copyright issues would be prevented, and less likely a problem. A lot of money could be saved from lawyer fees and fees from copyrighting if people were educated about the laws.
Throughout chapter 1 of “The Bedford Book of Genres,” I learned that there are a variety of ways to improve one’s writing. Several writers tend to get carried away while writing that they forget who their audience is and what message they are trying to deliver. This is when one must ask themselves what their purpose of writing is, do they want to present a narrative/ tell a story, inform, or persuade. After figuring out ones purpose they must choose a genre to be able to shorten their idea and be concise. In order for this to occur one must know the basic qualities and agreed-upon rules about the genre they are composing. Once one makes those decisions they move on to the rhetorical situation which mainly explains the idea. This allows the writer to provide support on their purpose such as saying what is great about it or provide statistics, which will automatically make their writing more interesting for the audience to read, as well as, get t...
Educating people about copyright laws could potentially stop this issue from reoccurring. The examples from this text may seem over the top, and they were not done maliciously, but they have the chance of potentially hurting the artist monetarily when without credit given.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the owners of the Prince song took it way too far and that there was no need to sue the mother.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the Prince case was taken much too far, because the mother was not aware of what she was doing. This just shows that copyright infringement needs to be taught to people so they know what they can and can't post.
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