Ali Fergerson's 'Everything Is A Remix' By Kirby Ferguson

Remixes creativity and Copyright Infringement In the works “Everything is a Remix” a film by Kirby ferguson and the article “Music remixes: Copyright infringement or creative expression” by Ali Pyrah, both discuss the issue of creativity and remixes and how they infringe on copyright and how it is difficult to tell when a remix is overreaching. Each text explains the concept it in a different way, in ‘Everything's a remix” the author discusses how just about everything was invented thorugh remixing and how movies, TV, and music all take different elements from work that already exist, in ‘Music remixes “Copyright infringement or creative expression” the author discusses how remixes are considered stealing work by some authors and what potential …show more content…
Based off of Ali’s linkedin account she specializes in law, finance, investigative journalism, and intellectual properties. With her experience in those categories of journalism she seems to have the merit and experience to be taken seriously on this particular subject, her article touches a lot on legal issues, and intellectual properties. Ali also has experience being a reporter for several different companies, an editor, and a senior writer/researcher. With her years of experiencing publishing articles of her own and editing articles from others she obviously knows the rules of plagiarism and where that line is drawn, because of that experience she is more than qualified to discuss the legality of plagiarism and the potential solutions to prevent it from happening as frequently in the …show more content…
In “Music remixes: Copyright infringement or creative expression” the article focuses heavily on protecting the work of others and doesn't touch on the history of remixing nearly as thoroughly as ferguson does. Ferguson doesn’t really give an end game to his article as to whether or not we should fix remixing, but instead he says how remixing will still change in the future as technology improves and new content is remixed even further. In Pyrahs article her endgame is essentially that the legality in copyrighting needs to be made more clear so that we can protect the original creators from having their work stolen illegally. Pyrah makes sure to state that this wouldn't mean the quality of content would go down she actually says how the quality of content will improve if people are not allowed to remix and copyright in the ways they get away with currently. With each text being different in who each text was targeting and how each one was written in different ways it’s important to understand the goal of each text. The goal of ‘Everything's a Remix” was to bring awareness to how things are created and remixed in the first place and how remixing is everywhere, but we don’t always see or pay attention to it. The goal of “Music remixes: Copyright