I was impressed with remix music in
Nigeria. They download music they want to use in remix. It can be piracy but
there is not copyright law. Watching the video, I thought they just enjoy music
without considering personal interest. But it is difficult for me to decide a
certain position about copyright law and free culture.
Free
culture has the good purpose that all people have a right to enjoy creativity
and contents. As the video showed, copyright can inhibit creativity and it has
protected for particular interests. However, I think paying for contents made
from others is also important. This can make contents more valuable and I show
respect to people who create them by paying for them. So I am not sure the
assertion that free is right, and I don't think that copyright law becomes
useless. I think the range of copyright law and the concept of culture will be
more expanded.
Current phenomena about enjoying contents
freely are seen as natural trends because all kinds of contents can be consumed
based on digital technology. All people who recreate contents with their own
creativity must be stopped according to current copyright law, but this will
not be stopped. So I think copyright law should think back about how it has
influenced creativity and culture, and it should seek for compromise plans with
free culture. Copyright law needs to be changed following recent culture trends.
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