Remix Culture

     Remix culture to me is a very interesting concept. The idea of taking things from the past blending and changing it a little to create something new that could be considered even better then the old is a concept that I believe defines most of human advancement in culture and technology. Being able to build on old concepts, inventions, and ideas helps these ideas to become more efficient, overall better and could even lead to a brand new concept all together. The example from the movie that we watched was how the invention of the printing press lead to a snowball effect of new inventions and had such an instrumental impact on how people communicated and shared information there after. I believe that some people fail to realize the impact that the remix culture could have on our society. Remix culture is not just about remixing movies, songs, or even books like we learned in class, but remix culture could also change ideas and technology. What I mean by this could be explained at by looking at the telecomunication technology that humans have devised. First it started off as a few circuits boards, servers, and a bunch of wiring but then it was reinvented and in a way "remixed" into the idea of the cell phone. After this it exploded and was reinvented or in a different term "remixed" over and over again each time adding and changing little things here and there such as adding music, games, Internet, cameras...etc Many other inventions that we have all created could also be seen in such a way. Remix culture is a great tool that aids in peoples innovation and thinking.
     I do not agree with a lot of the copyright law that are placed on almost everything that is created now because it greatly hinders the advancement of new ideas. A great example was from the the movie where it talked about how hard it is to publish and do research on a scientific journal because of all the copyright rules that one has to abide by before proposing a plan to a research. This alone I believe is something that will hold back the advancement of human medicine greatly. I am currently a biology major in college and I know the rigorous steps in someone has to go through before proposing an idea for a lab. Like the movie stated if copyright laws could be rewritten and people are able to build onto other people's ideas there would be numerous breakthrough in medicine. It is to bad that the culture today is more focused on what they can earn from there idea instead of what impact there idea can have on human society. This I believe is the main reason people and big companies do not want the copyright laws to be rewritten. A great example of this would be the music industry. The main majority of artists know that they have to make most of there money now from concerts and not from sales of there songs which most of the profit goes onto the labeling companies anyways. It is really the labeling companies who are trying to fight the pirating of songs which I believe is just plain stupid. Their job is to literally profit off of other artists ideas and really are not out to protect the artists ideas in the first place but to protect the money that comes from that idea.
     With the huge change in culture, and the concept of remix culture becoming more and more prevalent, I believe that people will learn to realize that there need to be a change in copyright laws, and there need to be much more leniency toward people who "remix." If not we will be stuck with the old and really who really likes the old, its all boring and well...just plain boring.