Paper #1 asks that you make a specific argument about copyright. For this week's prompt, I'd like you to share your tentative thesis as well as the claims you plan to use to support that thesis. This can be in any form you'd like - free write, outline, structured, unstructured.
Free Write:
ReplyDeleteI can't really say that I have a full thesis yet, for I'm still unsure about my topic being a mash-up. I want to do something that revolves around parody films, (Vampires Suck, Scary Movie 4, Disaster Movie, Dance Flik ect). If I do this subject I wouldn't be questioning the legality of these movies, for I'm positive that these producers and so forth pay a lot of money to be sure that they have no legal trouble. What I intend on doing is possibly comparing these movies to mash-up music videos and how money is of an unreasonable amount of money big time producers can make these movies and create new ideas out of some one's work but mash-up artists such as Girl Talk, are prohibited from creating their own version of a song with a different meaning. I think that these two industries have many of the same attributes and that the legal issues that these mash-up artists are facing are seemingly all based on money issues with the artists. But if the artists is already
For now my tentative thesis would probably go something like this, although knowing myself it will change about 100 times before I feel okay about it:
Mash-ups have recently created much controversy with their explicit illegal behavior, even though in the past the government has stood behind piracy and allowed the illegal activity to go on without any serious repercussions. What needs to happen now is change, the law now is obviously not working with the advancements in technology, and if they don’t adjust the laws, then there will be an ongoing battle between the public and these businesses. (I posted it once before through the regular format, but I can no longer see it)