Sunday, January 2, 2011

Blog Entry #3: Mashups and Copyright Law

MASH UP CHOSEN HAS BEEN POSTED BELOW



This mash up is a mix made by a popular DJ who’s nickname goes by the name of Danger Mouse. He was trying to express his musical talents through an abstract perspective using two completely different genres of music (rap and rock) and making one song.
Unfortunately Dj Danger Mouse technically disobey the copyright because he used copyrighted creations of Jay-Z and The Beatles to produce a song that can be profited without any of the artists permissions.
In my opinion, a mash up like this does require copyright permission because Dj Danger Mouse used two products separately sold of 2 different profiting company’s product. Dj Danger Mouse is using the soundtrack without the owners permission to make his own creation and a) making profit out of his soundtrack, b) claiming the soundtrack to be fully his, c) has no respect nor does he ask for permission of use.

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