The topic and idea of copyright seems very confusing to me. It hasn’t been something that I have had to worry about in my life thus far. After watching the documentary RiP! Remix Manifesto I realized that I have a very conflicting opinion about the use of copy written music. I do believe that music remixes are an emerging art form, and due to this belief I think that it shouldn’t be copy written if it is used in a way to express creativity. An example of this thought is a Youtuber named David Dobrik who creates these elaborate videos twice a week that showcase crazy moments in his life and in his friend group. They also show all the amazing things that he does for his friends and the community. In his videos, he always includes songs especially in his outro and in result of this, Youtube does not pay David the amount that they are suppose to. Currently he has 15.4 million subscribers and gets paid the same amount as his friends who have 2 million subscribers. Even though this happens, he still continues to add these 15 second song clips in his videos because it is his art, and it completes them. This is the part of copyright that I don’t agree with, if an artist is using a song to create something or to create art with it I don’t think it should be anyone’s place to say no.
The idea of open education though is one that I can get behind. As educators why can’t we share our resources in order to help one another? The way that I see it is that we all have one thing in common, every single one of us; we all want the best for our students. We all want to see them learn and exceed and the best way that us educators can do that is to work together so that we can provide our students with a positive and enriched learning environment.
