Reading "Remix" made me realize how serious large companies take copyright issues. I had no idea that a mother who downloaded a video on Youtube of her 18 month baby dancing to Prince's song could get sued for $150,000 because the video is classified as a copyright. She simply just downloaded the video because she thought it was funny and cute, she had no idea it could be viewed as copyright. Another example, a girl making a project about what goes into becoming a celebrity got sued because she used a picture of John Lennon in her project and it was considered copyright. I believe these are all unintentional copyrights, meaning individuals are not aware that those actions/ideas could be interrupted as copyrights. I think that if one wants to include the works of an artist in another form of their own entertainment, they should give the artist credit because the individuals "own" idea did after all derive from the previous artists idea. The author Lessig did not only provide readers with several examples of copyright situations between singers and people using their music as entertainment, but also compared copyright laws of other countries.
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...
Even innocent mistakes like that of the mother in the example can potentially hurt an artist monetarily, which is why copyright exists. It is fairly common in the modern world, therefore, as you said, credit should always be given to avoid this issue.
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