After watching the movie we watched in class about copyright I thought that the laws about them were dumb. People are just making new music, that sounds nothing like the original song, for a different genre. It's basically the same as covering a song except they don't ask the original artist. The mashups that Girl Talk made and other artists is so cool to me and I love how different they can make a song sound. I never saw the point in suing all the people who illegally download music because let's be real, everyone does it.
But then tonight I was talking to my friend's dad about it and he thought the opposite. He explained how what if people dont like the mashup or remix of the song and therefore they stop listening to your song because of it, which was interesting to me. And also how the original artist doesn't get paid ANYTHING for the mashup and what if the mashup becomes more popular than the original song? This gave me a different perspective on the topic and I'm torn.
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