My Perception After Watching Remix Manifesto
When I first heard that the ADD 267 would be watching Remix Manifesto, I became very weary,
and very livid about the notion. In my opinion, I do not approve of the remix
culture - which is refabricating American culture. I do not approve of the remix culture
because, in my opinion, I think remixing is considered plagiarism. For the most part, the remix artist steels
other artist’s songs, distorts/changes the music, and claims the work as one’s
own. The movie, Remix Manifesto, provides a poorly executed and contradictory
examples about the justification of remix culture.
Remix Manifesto discusses
the political controversies about the remix culture in America, and how the
American economy enforces plagiarism laws for copyrighted music. Many of the copyright laws are heavily
enforced due to problems with illegal downloading of music. Though remix artist continue to remix
different genres of music, and fuses multiple songs into one cohesive song,
copyright and infringement problems still occur. The majority of the information and first
person insights of the problem from layers, copyright specialists, and, remix
artist all gave their perspectives and insights about the remix culture. Also,
the director of the movie encouraged viewers who watched the movie to remix and
recreate their own versions of the movies.
The director of Remix Manifesto encouraged
this type of behavior to create a
point for the creation of the movie.
Many of Gaylor’s points are valid, and these points defend
his argument. However, I do not believe
Galylor’s manifesto does not apply to today’s modern culture. Many of his examples were skewed and
inapplicable. For example, the remix
artist, My Girlfriend, is glorified in the movie for copyrighting many songs in
his remix songs, and utilizing this music to enhance the quality of culture. Past
culture has always reformed and reinvented ideas to progress culture, but
modern culture is fierce and competitive.
So, I do agree that enforcement of infringement and
copyright laws are necessary. Though,
these laws can be extreme, and the American government abuses the power of the
laws. However, these laws protect artist
from people who are legitimately stealing artist’s songs for their own personal
gain. For example, the artist who was
steeling the Mickey Mouse cartoon, and claiming as his own work is morally and
ethnically wrong. Moreover, the
remixing culture in Brazil seems to be ethical and progressive. I enjoyed listening to how the natives are
embracing remix culture, and the Brazilian government are becoming involved
with the new trend. I liked this because
the community is willing to share instead of keeping music in federal
jurisdiction.
Even though Brazil is becoming progressive in remix culture,
the movie does not provide the artist’s prospective. Artists need to be paid for their work, and
will not economical survive! In order
for artist to be paid for their work, a process of buying and trading is
necessary. So if artist are not being
paid for their work, the economy slowly losses it economic standpoint. Eventually, the supply and demand of certain
cinematic products will diminish in existence, and the worth of the art will
decrease in value. Though the variety of
free online content providers are strongly increasing, I don’t think these
online providers will shift economical changes.
It is a tool to utilize, but I don’t think these online resources are a sustainable
resource.
Overall, it was painful to watch the movie. However, I did learn many insights about the
process and the history of infringement and copyright laws. Also, I enjoyed understanding the different
perspectives about remixing culture.
Hopefully, I can cautiously take initiative to embrace the remix
culture, and continue to be open-mined about new progressive culture.
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