Copyright_remix_Manifesto

Last class, we watched  a film called Rip, a remix by Manifesto that argues about copyrights and its use. I find the film very interesting because it taught me how the copyrights law started and how abusive the big corporations and companies are using that law in order for them to make profit to people. Manifesto explained and showed how  people actually uses the works of an orginal (video,sounds, images, figures) by making it as a remix or just simply take a sample amount of the work and use it which I find very creative . The owners and companies unfortunately think that people have stolen their properties. The owner has every right to claim about his work if its used by others . On the other hands people who take the owner’s work think that they abuse their rights  by not letting them use their work for non-profit. For instance, at a certain  school a person was drawing a Mikey mouse on the wall of the school for the students and was accused of violating the law  by disney for stealing their characters. In my opinion, if thats what copyright is all about then it is just a way for big companies such as disney to collect money from others. That is why Manifesto created the film. To show and convince abusive and ridiculous those big companies are doing to us. They want to control and have everything for themself and not allow our creativity to be free. Today, there is still conflict between them. But which one is right?