Below is a blog post by Kristi Swartz & the comment I left for her on her blogsite: Bloggin' With Kristi Swartz
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"Copyright Dilemma…
Being someone who had a very limited knowledge of the copyright issues for music and film in our new social society, it was interesting to examine copyright issues this week, and learn so much about the issues with copyright for this century.
In the documentary Good Copy, Bad Copy, the essence and complexity of copyright law and copyright infringement is explored through personal experiences.
From my learning this week, I do see the trouble for artist creation of music and film if it were to be left open to change without revenue for the creators of the songs, videos, etc. Artists put their talent, heart, and soul into creations and want to have the rights to those items. That makes a lot of sense to me. What about an image of my dog? Yes, even that has a copyright for me. Interesting.
I also enjoy the ability to use materials on Creative Commons to express my own ideas in the classroom using images, video, and audio designed by other creative individuals. I can imagine the change if teachers and students had access and the right to use original works, and could take parts and pieces of those works, put them together to share a part of history and retell a story, or express content in a new way. It could be very powerful for students. In the film Good Copy, Bad Copy this was illustrated through sampling and techno brega being created from original works.
It seems absurd that it is millions of dollars to buy out copyrights of songs from artists in order to simply use parts of the songs, or beats of the music in new creative ways. In my opinion, this aspect of copyright needs to change as we have a shift in culture to protect the artist from piracy.
If artists could share original content through a site like Creative Commons and give rights to others to use the works in new and creative ways while they still got credit and possibly profit, it could be more effective for today’s culture.
I see the use of sharing sites like Creative Commons becoming more and more popular in our 21st century culture of Internet song sharing and digital creation sharing electronically. I do, however, also see the trouble for artists ability to keep the music, video, or work as it was intended. Quite an interesting time as this change comes. As for my dog, I plan to post him on Creative Commons!"
Posted by Mrs. Kristi Swartz at 10:46 AM
Annie Woodle said...
Kristi,
First of all your dog is very cute and should be shared.:) I agree that our current copyright system is outdated, it is comforting to know that there are alternate venues popping up online where we can find and share content. I too see the other side of the problem, where protection is needed. For instance, in the portrait photography industry there is a real need for protection from copyright infringement. Most portrait photographers make their money from reprints of images - not the actual shoot. Many people get upset about not having the right to reprint an image of themselves and it causes a lot of conflict between photographers & customers. But...without protection most photographers would go out of business...I do think we should revert back to the 14 year law instead of these lifetime +70 years or 100 year terms for the protections. Chances are...even 1 or 2 years after I take an image I will give someone a copyright release form to print it on their own. I have added an option for customers to buy a disk with retouches & release forms included now - and I could be losing money from reprints, but it seems to even out. Beyond the business aspect, I am pretty liberal with my works and their use.
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