Show Me What You Learned (Blog, Blog, Blog, Blog)

My parody of E-40 and Keak the Sneak’s song “Tell Me When To Go” No video, just a static picture. The lyrics can be found here On a serious note, knowing more specifics about convergent culture and copyright law will help me as the collaboration is a goal of mine for my final project, and [...]

Week 3: Fair Use

This from the U.S. Copyright Office: “The distinction between fair use and infringement may be unclear and not easily defined. There is no specific number of words, lines, or notes that may safely be taken without permission.” There you have it. No 30-second rule, no 6 notes/words rule (as my former creative producer/Nashville writer once [...]

Week 2 Vid: Good Copy Bad Copy

This documentary deals with the multi faceted issue of copyright, which, in my opinion, is in serious trouble, and brings to mind this quote from Aristotle’s Politics: “Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.” As Lawrence Lessig points out, the law is strangling creativity. As a avid proponent [...]