- I enjoyed how the director cut together and used the NYU music director, the copyright lawyer and the Bridgeport Music representative, all very "upright and proper" folks talking about rap music, sampling and the George Clinton song. It definitely got my attention quickly due to the inflammatory dichotomy between these "straight-laced" folks and the hip-hop culture they are talking about during this piece of the film.
- My personal feelings with this idea of sampling and re-mixing of music and the folks shown in the video are not doing anything really creative and inventive, even though they think a lot about themselves and their so-called "music". The real creativity is with the original music creator and the idea of simply cutting up another's notes, putting them together with other cut-up notes is not creative. The video even mentions this several time throughout, speaking of anyone with a high-priced computer and good audio equipment can accomplish this feat.
- I am constantly amazed by those folks who put together the pirating websites featured in the video. Not sure what they get out of it, expect the notoriety of "bucking the system". People will always rally around someone or something that looks to be creating a counter-culture and the music piracy business capitalizes on this idea.
Creative Commons, I especially enjoyed the followup short videos Joe put together regarding this interesting and relatively new idea around IP and creativity. I have begun to utilize this CC content licensing in both my work-related and personal media creations. I remember when that story Joe shares with us regarding Adam Curry's pictures came out and he's gone on to create his own internet media empire in podcasting and blogging.
Finally, I'd like to comment on the Fair Use area we looked at this week. In my daytime job as a corporate communication, training and video producer, I have come across this area of fair use. I have been asked by my work associates to utilize various music clips and songs in a training video and they will build an entire training video around a song. When I let them know that they maybe encroaching upon copyrights, they consistently throw that "training" label back at me. I really appreciated the series and now have an even better understanding of this area. I can more effectively stand my ground and point out the limitations of fair use. Thank you,
@ Scott I am glad that you can use the copyright rules and laws in your work place, and show the limitations to the fair use. I to try not to use any music or images in my teaching projects to get away from copyright laws. I have done some videos for fun for my gym and people would say why don't you use so and so's song and I always tell them no its copyrighted!
ReplyDeleteExcellent summary and comments, and even better formal ware photo. One thing that I don't think that I mentioned is that one problem some podcasters/new media people have is that they are used to using commercial/copyrighted music for their bumpers and interstitials forgetting that they can do that because the radio station has a blanket licensing agreement that lets them legally sample the music they normally play over the air. So when these guys go solo they continue to use the music even though they don't have the blanket license... oops.
ReplyDeleteI didn't