Wk 1 Classmates Blog - Angela

Elaine S. said...

I agree with you Angela that there is a fine line between creating work from the inspiration of another artist's work and taking credit for another artist's idea. You and I talked about this in detail before. As a musician, primarily vocals, I started my passion for music and singing because of a song on the radio or (check this out!) the 8 tracks, 45, or cassette tape. Yes I am getting that young! Lol!

Anyway, Roberta Flack was my first inspiration. Well back then you could sing the hell out of anybody’s song and not worry about a thing. Artists actually took it as a compliment. People would ask, “who is that artist?” and I’d say, “Roberta Flack” then they’d go out and by the cassette or CD as time went on. The Arts are supposed to be about inspiration, passion, and emotion, plus a bowl full of other stuff. Japan wouldn’t have beaten the U.S. in technology if the U.S. had never showed them their technology. In there lies the issue; the respect, common courtesy for the person or thing that inspired a person is fading. The disrespect now flows on both sides. Until people learn to treat each other fairly again, the Fair Use Issues will continue.

How bout this for a dream: I just read an article, Emerging Copyright Issues of Music Industry – International Prospective by Gaurav Singh (2008). According to Singh,

“a new term called Copyleft licensing is also used these days; the term is used to describe   the removal of Restrictions on the use of ideas and information. People who wish to share their materials can use the Copyleft license to allow others to reproduce, adapt and distribute   copies of their work”. 

Now this might be a great workaround. If I don’t mind you using my stuff I’ll just create a copyleft license so is no drama. Hope this takes of across the board.

Singh, G. (2008). Emerging copyright issues of music industry – international prospective. JurisOnline.in. Retrieved on June 29, 2011 from http://jurisonline.in/2008/09/emerging-  copyright-issues-of-music-industry-%E2%80 %93-international-prospective/  June 30, 2011 10:39 AM    

 Angela's Post When I watched the copyright fair rights video it got me to think about when I was working on my undergraduate degree.  My concentrated area was in Electronic Arts. In my typographic class there was a project that was required to do on photographing different font on building in our environment.  That mean it could be graffiti, ancient font off of church building or modern signs it did not matter where we found it as long as it was interesting.  After retrieving that resource, then we were required to duplicate our images and transfer it into one of the programs that we using to draw.  There was twigging to make it our own style, and then we critique the outcome.  I often wondering was that work of art was true our own or did we just take advantage of the original artist who simply did not know their rights and a dead artist who could not speak up for themselves. Which ever the case may be, I personal did not feel I had the right to claim something that I duplicated from another person work.