Promt # 3

My tentative thesis statement for my formal paper # 1 is “Todays copyright law rewards the already created work but never promotes the creativity that can be built upon the old work.

Copy right laws has always rewarded the original work and never really encourages the potentials that can be built upon, for example it respects Bill gates who invented Microsoft and not the people who buy his products, because of which he is rich today. These days copyright laws protect the producers and tax the customer, it limits the work that can be created, like the Girl talk, the guy who does mash ups and remixing. He is actually communicating to the world in different perspectives of music. He is making others dance and laugh and at the same time people are liking it? What’s so freaky about this? It’s against the law. The law states that the original work of art cannot be copied or distributed explicitly without the legal permission of the owner, and girltalk fails this boundary of the law.

There are no ups and downs to the arguments of copyright; there are people who prefer thick protection and the people who prefer thin. It really depends on what we consider and believe to be original and authentic, the original work is sometime stolen from the ideas of our four fathers which were made on those days when there was no internet around and no copyright laws were made. Like todays rap music are often abstracted from there and there might be few legal cases that has contributed to those actions.

Let’s take an example of soft wares that are designed to create mash up; these soft wares have helped many people in creating and exploring the music’s of their kind. The law doesn’t respect that. It’s against the law to be creative on this way. So today’s law about copyright is not promoting the talents but it’s instead keeping them to the doom.