A Remix Manifesto

Usually I'm not a huge fan of documentaries, but this one I was really drawn to. The first thing that really caught my attention and drew me in was the list at the beginning; the list that stated 1) culture builds on the past 2) the past always trys to control the future 3) the future is becoming less free and 4) to build free societies you must limit the control of the past. It made me think and I started to realize that these statements were correct. I especially believed this after the Walt Disney example. I never realized that Disney recreated different elements from the culture into his characters that children and adults can understand, then became a  hypocrite when other people were trying to use his idea. They weren't stealing or copyrighting his idea. They were simply using it as a creative outlet for themselves. It's like saying I can not go to an art museum or a gallery and not be inspired by a work of art, and possibly use some of the elements in the work of art. I feel like thats impossible, not to be inspired by the elements around you. That is what I feel Girl Talk is doing with music. He is not taking an entire song that already exist and calling it his own. Instead he is taking several songs, breaking them into fragments, and mashing them together. He is creating an entirely new song and I believe that he has the rights to do this. It is his own works of art that were inspired by songs from the past. The only reason the government has a copyright law is due to money. Everything has to do with money in todays society. Pity.