Project one was to create a sample to convey a message. I thought this was going to be simple but when putting my pictures together from the net I had to choose carefully what I wanted to put on there. The second one was to create the same message but with my own copyrighted pictures (rights that I had to the pictures). I of course then took pictures of my own to use for my sample.
This brings up the idea of ownership. Since I made the piece of art so now I own it. But the first picture was taken from the internet, so do I truly own it? Can't someone just take the same art piece that I made and tweak it a little and now say that they own it? Of course they can, am I going to get mad over it, No. They could even use my second piece of sample and change it to their own preference. I wouldn't mind at all. If they are making money off of it would I be mad? Maybe just a little mad, but I didn't create the whole concept. They just branched off of mine and made it into their own. I'm sure that if someone remade my samples it might even turn out better than what my originally looked like. That's the idea I want put out there. If the change is better then why not allow it? People are always trying to look for more efficient ways to do things. These samples are pictures of everyday items just put together in my own way. Does someone one the exclusive right to a picture of everyday item? I hope not or else everyone selling items on eBay would be in big trouble for their display picture.
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We take it for granted that our pictures are ours and can be disposed of as we see fit. I'm wondering though what the world would be like if things had turned out like Lessig mentioned, where people and landscapes could not be photographed except by express permission. Our only subjects would be ourselves, really. What would creativity, and culture in general, look like?
Lessig also mentioned the gradual disappearance of "rights and values we once took for granted." Once, people were able to use what they saw, and did so frequently. Now, however, everything seems to be owned and guarded by someone else.
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