So we all had to watch this movie for English class and it was on Copywriting.
The guy who was filming it thought that people should be able to use other peoples music to make their own. Also that creativity and expressing yourself should be free.
To me the guy filming was being entirely one sided.
I mean if I wrote a song I'd like to get paid for it. and if someone was getting paid for something I wrote well I'd probably get upset. Song writers need to make a living too.
But at the same time, I don't think they should be putting a cap on peoples creativity.
We as people need to find some sort of happy middle.
Like music should be free to download and edit as you please but if you want to sell anything you mix then all the money you make should be split evenly between you and the people who's songs you used. Seems fair right?
This film was bias in more then one way. The mood the whole time was so negative towards the copy write companies. And as I said before the whole tone of it was one sided. They were always stating how the copy write companies are trying to control you and take away your creativeness. Should they could charge less but they need to make a living as well. The future is becoming less free, this is true but there is no need to hate and point fingers about it. we all contribute to the hiring prices.
But so that I am not being one sided, that is really the reason we download music. people put such a high price on music we just think to ourselves that it's not worth it like why spend $30:00 on a CD when I can just go home and down load it.
So I can see both sides of this argument and just a thought, if in the film they had told some of the other side's story there argument would have seemed far less bias then it would have made his case more convincing. Like not even 20 minutes of the film to talk about how the song writers need to feed their family too would have sufficed.
