Movie Response

Remix Manifesto

This movie was interesting, I knew about the existence of copyright but never knew how much this effects so many people in so many different ways. Living in a culture where everything lives on the Internet, I honestly never really thought about copyright and how a majority of what i see and hear on social media a lot of the time is copyrighted. I understand the copyright law and why we need to have it and why it is enforced but at the same time I feel like it is taken way out of proportion in many instances. Especially charging outrageous fees for copyright that average families cannot afford. 

Gaylor's manifesto I agree with, our culture always builds on the past and is constantly growing from what we have learned from our past. We hold onto our past so much that it controls our future and gives us less creativity and control of what we can and cannot do. This in turn makes our future become less free because of the lack of control we have in it over everything. I agree that if we stopped having the past control so much of what we do a lot of new possibilities and discoveries would be made. They made a great point during the movie about how even medical documents and ideas are patented and controlled by people so they are limited to what they can and can not do during certain research. If everyone could use whatever they wanted we honestly might be closer to a cure for cancer or other big diseases. I understand the reasons for having so much control, and I don't think everything should be completely free but definitely a lot of things would be better if some of it was.

This whole argument over copyright also can make it harder for the artists. If we were to make everything that has to be copyrighted free for anyone, how would the artists profit? Using this model can make it hard for people who are trying to make a living off of their art, with no stability it could make things way harder for them. Overall this movie definitely helped me understand copyright more and that it is not always a good thing, that we should rethink how it works and let the past control us less.