Thursday, April 3, 2008
I still feel as if my freedoms were not taken away
In my project I tried to make an argument that perhaps creativity could not rather be doomed but could be going down the wrong path towards constraining our creativity (as shown by the image of hell). By going down the road towards heaven, I tried to symbolize that creativity could flourish in an environment that allows it due to the copyright laws. Heaven also indicated the more positive environment in which copyright laws were relaxed. However, I think many people had an idea that I was only saying that they were two extremes. I was just appealing to others views that copyright laws could be relaxed. Secondly, my other creation in which I had to secure the rights to reflected more on the war between the two sides (people that want their freedoms and the big corporations) and that creativity could be pulled into the black hole (that I tried to depict), thus controlling creativity. Lastly on my remix picture I switched the freedom to the file sharers depicting that rarely does anybody get caught with most activities. I would consider my freedom to file share and download as ‘free’ as would many other people. Have you gotten caught? 1/500,000 people get caught illegally infringing on copyright laws. Also I depicted the corporate side as 'regulate' because I ask what would you do if you were in that postition? If people stole your commercially copyrighted works? It turned out to be very interesting project in which creativity was allowed to flourish (illegally!! Haha); although, I don’t really see anything constraining on this type of activity. Did anybody feel as ‘free’ as they were before? Thus is the majority of the population actually regulated. If 1/500,000 copyright infringers were punished how are we regulated?
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I see your point. But I think that's why the element of fear is used to try to keep people from copyright infringement. I think it's been partially successful because some people get scared and don't do anything illegal. In a lot of countries other than the US video games and CDs are copied illegally for commercial purposes and they are not really punished that severely even if they get caught. In the US, I haven't seen pirated video games and the extent of illegally sold CDs is a lot less than many foreign countries. So the copyright laws must be working in part at least.
Oh for sure I do believe they are working but mainly they are restricting 'better' work because of the time component and coverage into noncommercial work.
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