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RIP! A Remix Manifesto. Documentarian Brett Gaylor digs into the current state of creativity with the music industry and how copyright laws prevent artists like Girl Talk from sampling others pieces to make a new song. Brett Gaylor shows a large amount of bias throughout the film because he is on the side that thinks copyright laws are unfair and harshly punishable. However, he does not take into consideration the negative effects of file sharing, as he is a young guy and doesn't want to pay ninety-nine cents for a song.
Bias is shown as he gets a second opinion from Cory Doctrow, who is also on the pro-copyright side.
It is an appeal to authority showing him in the film and hearing him out, but his views are completely one-sided because, as I said, he is on the pro-copyright side. The film has excellent diction about the subject however, for example words like "infringement", "copyright", "free speech". The way they used these phrases is relatable to the way of how the director feels which is " people should be allowed to use art in any way ,shape or form the want. Property of the public domain or not."
This film is very one sided. The views of copyright laws are going to differ between the 99% and the 1%. Bigwigs of record companies are obviously going to be all for copyright laws to be punishable as their only concern is making money and keeping it. Whereas the average-Joe may have a completely opposite standpoint on the matter. My opinion is no piece of music or movie is needed badly enough in my life that I have to risk making a stupid mistake that is just going to make a big ordeal. Copyright may get worse over time, but for now things are pretty fair between the two different organizations of people for and against copyright.
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