Media Analysis

  We watched a movie about copyright. This movie was bringing points up to us that we may never have realized before. Maybe we already know what he is talking about, and maybe we don't. It's a bias kind of situation. Well anyway back on topic. I'm going to tell you about what I learned. What I got through this film documentary from my own perspective. The main point I got from this is that copyright is going completely out of hand. The reason, greed. Yes greed. You may not understand what I mean unless you have actually gone into depth about this copyright situation. However let me discuss this with you briefly. The copyright industry is sewing people for copyright, but honestly we all know that. What we don't know is that they sew people for copyright so they can take in large amounts of money. Like I said earlier they do this because of greed. The law of copyright was made so others could realize who created or invented certain things. You would get fined if you took an invention and called it your own. You see this law was created so people could realize who made what and so that people could create their own invention based off of ideas they got from others. You see how this works? Do you also see how the copyright industry now has completely rearranged how this law works? They sewed people for making a book on how to draw Mickey Mouse for pity's sake. This movie is bringing this matter to our attention so we could make it right. We should be able to use other people's ideas to make our own things without getting fined. That is why the law was made after all.


In this movie the film actor introduced quite a lot of different characters. Each with their own different perspective on the copyright matter. I am going to bring up two different characters from this film. One was an older woman. I can't recall her name, but what she said is quite more important. So the film actor decided to interview her. He showed her how a remixer named Girl Talk created a remix to an Elvis song. However before showing the song to the woman he asked her about her view on copyright. He asked her if she believed that copyright was getting out of hand. She replied with a yes. She felt the same way as I do. She felt that they are sewing too many people and it's all for the sake of earning more money. The film maker then showed her the Remix of Elvis's song. The woman's opinion on the song wasn't positive. Neither was mine actually. She felt like Girl Talk had made Elvis's song into his own. What she did admire though was his creativity. However she did believe that Girl Talk should have made his own type of song based off of Elvis's song. Not actually using Elvis's song, and completely rearranging it. Another character that the film actor introduced was Girl Talk himself. Yes Girl Talk is a man. He is a remixer. He takes all sorts of songs, and he rearranges them therefore making them into a remix. He is actually amazing. Even though he is making his own things based off of other people's ideas, and he even mention him, he still can get major fines. He could get fined so much that he would never be able to pay of that debt in his entire lifetime. And all he did was remix a song. Do you understand now how copyright is completely out of control.



Another thing I learned from this movie is about different people's perspectives. This movie was bias. It showed everyone's different perspectives. Some people felt that whole copyright situation was fine the way it was and many people find that it is completely out of control. I feel like it is completely out of control. Just stating my own opinion here. Although this movie took place in so many different location it seems that everyone's perspectives we all tied in some way. They all felt the same way some how, but they all expressed it in different formats. Copyright IS out of control, and most of us have actually realized it. We need to do something about it, and you know that, I even know that. Let's change how copyright works, and lets form the copyright law back to how it was supposed to be used.

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