CR06

This week we delved into the legal issues surrounding the design field. We were forewarned that it would be the most boring lecture of this class. As much as I hate to say it, I'd have to agree. The law is so monotonous to me! It is all memorization of pety little things with no passion or colors. Nevertheless it is necessary to protect artists' original work, time and effort. The movie we viewed, "Rip!: A Remix Manifesto" was such a good documentary! The maker did an excellent job with portraying his side of the story and presenting it in a really good film! The whole idea of copyright really hit home when he had to cut out the girl talk concert's audio because he had played it to make a point and then filled in the silence with music from the pubic domain, a classical piano concerto. It was such a contrast from the picture to what was being shown. After this week I am noticing more and more copyright elements like signs of businesses on high street and youtube videos that have been removed. Something about this video also made me really want to go home and download some music, probably encourages by the rebellionistic attitude of the old cartoonist man that fought disney to draw a mouse. However, this time I decided to be a good citizen and not "steal" any music off the internet. Although, its not like any of the money gets to the artists anyway! The giant music corporations gobble everything up. How frustrating to live in a completely private and corporated society.