Individual Creativity
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 by flyboi
Rock music may dominate today's pop charts, with numerous subdivisions such as alternative, metal, pop and punk to choose from. Any number of sources can be found for the blend of sounds known as rock music. How on earth are record companies/corporations putting their copyright stamp on it when it is not at all original?
All music is influenced by someone or something so you’re actually using a concept or idea that had already existed. So is your creation really original and you have the right to stake claims to copyright? The whole copyright and proprietary rights become clouded here because really the author or artist has created something new BUT from borrowed conventions. Where does one draw the line? How do corporations justify proprietary rights over material that has already been reproduced yet they claim as original and their own?
In my personal opinion I would have to agree with Becker and Stadler “information is a raw material that needs to be freely available” after all its not really the corporations or the artists idea, their creation has been influenced by the existing.
All music is influenced by someone or something so you’re actually using a concept or idea that had already existed. So is your creation really original and you have the right to stake claims to copyright? The whole copyright and proprietary rights become clouded here because really the author or artist has created something new BUT from borrowed conventions. Where does one draw the line? How do corporations justify proprietary rights over material that has already been reproduced yet they claim as original and their own?
In my personal opinion I would have to agree with Becker and Stadler “information is a raw material that needs to be freely available” after all its not really the corporations or the artists idea, their creation has been influenced by the existing.