Summative Blog Post: Surprising

This week’s module was to give us (the class) the knowledge that many things we consume have already been created once before. There were many surprises this week for me because I love music, and movies. It is very hard for people born in the 90s to know that the music they might be listening to contains content from someone else’s song created in the 40s/60s/etc. I used to thing some producers were just creative in making instrumentals for song artist, but know I wonder if they are just using something that was already created. With movies it is understandable because there are so many of them but its very hard to come up with a blockbuster film without having the creation of a film that was not a successful book or the movie being a sequel. Many movies that have broken records (Batman, Avengers, Harry Potter) are based a book/comic that people grew up loving. There are so many books out there, that have yet to be transformed into movies but as a movie lover I still look forward to seeing movies and listening to music that have remade into new versions of the original. 

Courtney Semmler brought up a great quote in her comments about in my initial blog this week “Online Consumer/Produce: A Copyright Free Internet?” This quote was "If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research" by Wilson Mizner. This is exactly how YouTube works, people steal a video and make it there own, and this keeps continuing throughout YouTube. If a YouTube user is creating a cover of a successful song it is the same process. It would be interesting for me to see people to come up with there own creative ideas and become the next online success story.