"can not argue creativity when it is based off of someone
else's stuff. "...why not?
Girl Talk argues that several artist steal from each other. Using
the same notes as one song, but rearranging it in a different order.
The author of the video says that copywriter has become this big
argument between people and the label industry on who gets to make money.
Fair use is a part of copy writes law that allows for free
use. Where someone can use a work to justify a point of certain use. Invoking
free speech to make a comment.
This so called remixing that people do with others products
is writing in the 21st century. This writing is a form of
expression.
Transformative use is
a new addition to the fair use law. Transformative use is when a person takes
another persons work and transforms it into their own in order to make a new point.
In order to do this within U.S. law the person must transform the original work
so that it has a different purpose from the original. For example Girl Talk was
able to take four different songs and create his own. Girl Talk used these
songs and transformed it enough so that someone would recognize the song was by
Girl Talk, and not the Jackson 5 or whoever else. What really makes Girl Talk’s
songs a transformative work is the fact that he adds in his own samples of
music within the mash up of other known songs. This is known as adding value to
the original work.
I agree with you--I think that he's definitely creating something entirely new, even though he uses little pieces of other artists' work. Like you said, the pieces that he uses are manipulated so far beyond recognition, so I don't think they could have any negative effect on the original artists.
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