Blog #7- Remixing

What a messy thing copyright is! And now that we have the internet the copyright world is going to end! While I do think the laws dealing with copyright is outdated the idea that credits shouldn't be given to the original author at all isn't acceptable. I think there should be some sort of balance for how much credit is given to the remixer and the original singer/songwriter. I think that if we "cited" our sources in remix projects, like we do in papers there shouldn't be such a huge issue about using copyrighted work. We haven't been allowed to use other people's writing without citing it, so why not do the same with video, remixxes, etc? Something that McLeod points out is that oftentimes we change the meanings of other peoples work when we remix it. But we also do that with our papers. We only quote little pieces of other pieces of work that showcase what we want to say- but what we want to say may be very different than what the author of the quote is saying. We should be able to use other people's work if we are doing something creatiely different with it. This video shows how one song can be connected to a lot of movies.

All of the movies showcased in this video are from Disney. In a lot of ways this mashup shows a very common ideology that are presented in a bunch of Disney movies. Love can conquer all, even if you argue at first. This mashup enables us to think about Disney movies in an entirely different way than many of us have thought about. I think this is one of the great things that comes out this kind of media. We have the ability to look at media products and critique them.