Strict copyright laws serve to protect the big industries and artists that make enormous profits as it is. It also stifles the creativity of society in general and discourages freedom of speech that may be based on someone else's work.
Don't get me wrong. If I created an original work, I wouldn’t want someone to just blatantly copy it. I completely understand the need for copyrighted material, but I think it should be more like what is done in the literary world. Someone should not be able to plagiarize your work and call it their own, unless they have your permission to do so. However, if samples of your work are used to create something else, citing the original creator should be enough, just as Girl Talk does.
great comments, you've totally nailed where things breakdown and where the battle is being fought. Alas, we are suffering from the understandable unwillingness of the current generation of media rights-holders to set the media free to do with it has always previously done: renew and re-interpret our cultural heritage.
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