Our Society struggles with a huge
debate that poses a huge question on whether or not remixing and recycling
content is a legitimate platform that displays possible creativity or possible
copyright infringement. Many artists who originally recorded songs are finding
remixed versions of their songs and are claiming that they are violating the
law by stealing their work. I believe that if you look up the word remix; you
will have a clearer idea if it is violating the law by copyright infringement. A
remix, by definition, is
a song that has been edited or completely recreated to sound different from the
original version.
Our generation of music is
changing. A new type of music has emerged over the past decade in the form of
edm, electronic dance music, with all sorts of sounds and clips of voices in
other songs recreated to sound totally different. If it is a different tempo,
pitch, sound, and song. With that being said, I stand on the side that supports
remixing and recycling music. Personally, I love music and I listen to it
everyday. And there have been multiple circumstances where I think the remixed
version is flat out better. I wear the song out and I still like it, but
hearing it with a different beat or synchronized with other tones sounds new
and creative to me. Remixing is a platform for creativity and should not be
penalized by the law in anyway shape or form. There is a youtube sensation
genius and goes by the name “Pop Danthology” who has over 48 million hits on a
big remix of the all the popular songs of 2013. He uses pieces of every song
and combines them into a whole new song of its own. I don’t even like half of
these songs but I honestly enjoy listening to the mashup. A mashup is another
word for remix that is commonly used by Dj’s and music producers of our
generation.
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