Girl Talk: Fair Use

I think that the Girl talk video showed us how creative people can be by transforming songs that have seen their more popular days, and revolutionizing it into something more modern that’s fits a younger demographic.  In my opinion I believe that he copyrighting laws and restrictions need to be changed to be more realistic and support the creative technology centered society we live in.  When it comes down to it the four or five companies that own the rights to nearly ever song, and movie created and I think that that is the major problem that we have at hand.  The basic rule of copyrighted materials fair use in its most general sense,  is any copying of copyrighted material done for a limited and “transformative” purpose.  In girl talks case I think that this is exactly what he is doing.  He is not just taking songs and throwing a catchy beat under them, he is also remixing the lyrics in a different fashion than there were previously.  There has been so many lawsuits that could have been avoided for example the one that the video talked about dealing with Napster.  Millions of people worldwide sharing music for personal use in a sense is violating the copyright agreement because people are getting music without paying for it.  With this being said it may take away from money that the artist can make off of album sales and that is understandable.  I believe in light of all of this that even though people are downloading songs for free that it can benefit many artist in a positive way.  The main way that I am arguing here is recognition.  The use of sharing songs between a networked group of people increases the popularity of artist, especially artist who are “up and coming” who other wise would struggle to sale albums