In class, we watched a video of Jenkin’s presentation for Google. It basically just gave him an chance to summarize his book, explaining some points more in depth and providing more examples. I agree with his point about new music videos, and how it is so true that no matter who you are or what type of music you listen to, you have heard the song or seen the video Soulja Boy. Even if you do not watch VH1 or MTV, the video is posted everywhere online, YouTube, Facebook, etc and it has even gone as far as people recreating their own, different versions of it and posting that as well. I think it is incredible how the Internet has boomed in the past years from how it was when I was younger, many people did not even have the Internet, and now not that many people I know don’t have the Internet. It makes it so easy for anyone to express their opinions publicly, whether or not it goes against big companies or bigger powers. Jenkin’s talks about how sites such as YouTube has crossed copyright laws since people have taken original works, changed it in some way and added in their own own, and publicly posted it, but I agree with Jenkins in that it should not be seen as copyright infringement since the creator is not getting anything out of it; there is no profit being made.
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