By: Brian Andrews and Tyler Burton
Songs are often changed and revised into remixes by various artists. The Gregory Brothers, are one such groups who thrive off making remixes. They took a YouTube video called, "The Double Rainbow Guy" and remixed it into a song. They took the original video, edited the video, added the music they created, and auto tuned the voice of the man talking about the double rainbows.
The song they created appeals the audience because they make an already hilarious video even funnier. The Gregory Brothers also make music that actually sounds good and is not only liked for the video. They actually sell the remixes they make on Itunes. A portion of the money the make goes to the people who they originally took the voice from, e.g. the double rainbow guy, The Gregory Brothers take their cut of the profits, and the rest go to Itunes.
The remixes The Gregory Brothers make have been challenging the rules of plagiarism and copywrite. In some of their videos they show businesses who they do not give credit for appearing. They also are using the copywrited appearance of the double rainbow guy and the words that he says. They then change his words in reorder them and change its sounds to make the song. They do provide the double rainbow guy with royalties from the song.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
Copyright©
By: Brian Andrews and Tyler Burton
Copyright was instituted to protect artists from the theft of their creative knowledge. This has become quite problematic in recent years with the advances in technology. The ablity to share the vast knowledge of the human race across the internet with anyone in the world has started to blur the lines of copyright. It makes the quality of what is being created diminish because the incentive for earning money goes away when people can access what they created and the authors not be compensated for it.
In recent years the music industry has had to crack down on the so called "sharers" because of their ability to share music with anyone but not paying the artists and/or record companies. Websites such as Napster and Limewire were created to allow media to be shared from Peer to Peer. Napster was shut down by the government after artists sued them for selling their music without permission and without paying them royalties.
There have been groups muscial groups such as the Gregory Brothers who use different material from many sources. Artists should be able to mix and match material from because the songs they are creating, such as the bed intruder are extremely creative and they should be credited with creating an entirely new song. They should ask for permission though for using copyrighted images in their videos, which they probably do, otherwise they would have already been sued.
Copyright was instituted to protect artists from the theft of their creative knowledge. This has become quite problematic in recent years with the advances in technology. The ablity to share the vast knowledge of the human race across the internet with anyone in the world has started to blur the lines of copyright. It makes the quality of what is being created diminish because the incentive for earning money goes away when people can access what they created and the authors not be compensated for it.
In recent years the music industry has had to crack down on the so called "sharers" because of their ability to share music with anyone but not paying the artists and/or record companies. Websites such as Napster and Limewire were created to allow media to be shared from Peer to Peer. Napster was shut down by the government after artists sued them for selling their music without permission and without paying them royalties.
There have been groups muscial groups such as the Gregory Brothers who use different material from many sources. Artists should be able to mix and match material from because the songs they are creating, such as the bed intruder are extremely creative and they should be credited with creating an entirely new song. They should ask for permission though for using copyrighted images in their videos, which they probably do, otherwise they would have already been sued.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Shopping for Sources on the Web
By: Brian Andrews and Tyler Burton
The internet is a place of what seems full of limitless knowledge. It can make finding sources to use in papers easier and more accessible, but the reliability can often be called into question.
The internet is a place of what seems full of limitless knowledge. It can make finding sources to use in papers easier and more accessible, but the reliability can often be called into question.
There are a few ways to determine whether a website is reliable or if one website is more reliable over another. The first thing the researcher will notice is the view of the website; "Does this look like it was well put together?", or, "Is this website sketchy?", would be some questions that should be answered after viewing the website. Is the author of the article or source someone who is qualified to provide the information for what you are researching?
Online databases are a reliable source to use because they are filled with scholarly articles. When searching for articles you do not want to use sources that are biased on the subject. It has often been said that Wikipedia is not a reputable source because it is edited by random people who may not be qualified. This may change soon though because the editors have the uncanny ability to find errors in articles and have them fixed.
Online databases are a reliable source to use because they are filled with scholarly articles. When searching for articles you do not want to use sources that are biased on the subject. It has often been said that Wikipedia is not a reputable source because it is edited by random people who may not be qualified. This may change soon though because the editors have the uncanny ability to find errors in articles and have them fixed.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Sweatshops R Us
By: Brian Andrews and Tyler Burton
Around the world a majority of everday items are produced and manufactured in factories in other countries. These factories are not really factories in some countries, but what some people would call sweatshops. The dilemna that consumers have is that when they try to become involved and be against sweatshop labor, they may end up hurting the workeres who depend on the sweatshops to provide their wages.
Around the world a majority of everday items are produced and manufactured in factories in other countries. These factories are not really factories in some countries, but what some people would call sweatshops. The dilemna that consumers have is that when they try to become involved and be against sweatshop labor, they may end up hurting the workeres who depend on the sweatshops to provide their wages.
Large companies such as Nike, Polo, Sperry, etc. have their products made from other countries. For example, Nike has young children make shoes for them and pays them $2 a day when they can make up to 30 pairs of shoes, then those shoes are sold for $80 in the United States. We may feel like we have responsibilites to stop anything that seems like unfair treatment towards these workers, our wanting to be activists and to shut down foreign factories actually can hurt these people.
A paper written by Nicholas Kristof gives evidence that our meddling in third world sweatshops and trying to have them closed down can cause workers to lose easier jobs and make them work hard labor jobs in the elements. If we were to stop buying clothes that were made outside of the United States and tried boycotting them we would be hurting the workers instead. We also try to justify shutting down these factories because we do not believe what the workers are making to be a substantial wage.
The reality is that we have our own living standards set too high. If we go back almost a century we would be in much the same place. There would be little running water, no widespread electrical use diseases such as polio and smallpox would still be uncured. We have grown accustomed to our way of life and believe that everyone should live the way we do, but that is not going to happen. There will s be someone in povery or not having the same living standards as us. We should help them as much as we can by bringing advancements to them but only when they are ready to accept it. They do not have an unendless supply of immigrants to do the work they do not want like we have, if it provides jobs for them then we should buy their products and stay out of their business.
A paper written by Nicholas Kristof gives evidence that our meddling in third world sweatshops and trying to have them closed down can cause workers to lose easier jobs and make them work hard labor jobs in the elements. If we were to stop buying clothes that were made outside of the United States and tried boycotting them we would be hurting the workers instead. We also try to justify shutting down these factories because we do not believe what the workers are making to be a substantial wage.
The reality is that we have our own living standards set too high. If we go back almost a century we would be in much the same place. There would be little running water, no widespread electrical use diseases such as polio and smallpox would still be uncured. We have grown accustomed to our way of life and believe that everyone should live the way we do, but that is not going to happen. There will s be someone in povery or not having the same living standards as us. We should help them as much as we can by bringing advancements to them but only when they are ready to accept it. They do not have an unendless supply of immigrants to do the work they do not want like we have, if it provides jobs for them then we should buy their products and stay out of their business.
Friday, February 11, 2011
Visible Knapsack
By: Brian and Tyler
In the article by Peggy Mclntosh, she talks about sexism and racism. She explains how men have more privileges than women and how whites have more privileges than people of different races. In the article, she makes a list of daily privileges being white. We didn't realize all the advantages whites get over people of different races. One visible knapsack people can easily see is if people are wealthy or poor. Wealthy people have a lot of advantages over the poor such as: wealthy people can afford to send their kids to college (also easier to be accepted if they're wealthy), they don't have a problem paying for their bills, they don't have to go to bed hungry, or worry about putting clothes on their kids back.
There is also another group of individals who have privileges that their peers do not posess, the wealthy. If you have money, not only are you able to purchase anything that your heart can desire, you also are looked upon differently than a homeless hobo cooking his can of beans over a trashcan fire. Individuals who come from a wealthy family are able to gain entry into a university and are able to pay for it much easier.
In the article by Peggy Mclntosh, she talks about sexism and racism. She explains how men have more privileges than women and how whites have more privileges than people of different races. In the article, she makes a list of daily privileges being white. We didn't realize all the advantages whites get over people of different races. One visible knapsack people can easily see is if people are wealthy or poor. Wealthy people have a lot of advantages over the poor such as: wealthy people can afford to send their kids to college (also easier to be accepted if they're wealthy), they don't have a problem paying for their bills, they don't have to go to bed hungry, or worry about putting clothes on their kids back.
There is also another group of individals who have privileges that their peers do not posess, the wealthy. If you have money, not only are you able to purchase anything that your heart can desire, you also are looked upon differently than a homeless hobo cooking his can of beans over a trashcan fire. Individuals who come from a wealthy family are able to gain entry into a university and are able to pay for it much easier.
Friday, January 28, 2011
How I learned to read words, sentences, and phrases, also paragraphs...TFM.
By: Brian Andrews, Tyler Bruton
Brian:
My earliest memories of reading are quite fuzzy. I do not have a photographic memory so I have trouble remembering. When my older brother learned to read he tried to teach me, but at the time I was 4 and I would rather throw blunt objects at him. My earliest memory of actually attempting to read was my dad showing me the newspaper. He would read off sport results from the games and began to teach me by reading sports articles.
Tyler:
I don't remember much of learning how to read. I know it was hard for my mom to teach me because she had to teach my twin sister at the same time when she was a single mom. The only thing I can remember is reading my first book, Dr. Suess' Green Eggs and Ham. I guess I was a quick learner because I could read the whole book before my sister. I can't remember how old I was at the time.
Comparsion:
Family seems to play an important part in both stories. We were both taught by our parental gurdians. There are several differences in our stories. Brian learned to read by looking at newspapers, while Tyler learned from the master of rhymes The Dr. Seuss.
Brian:
My earliest memories of reading are quite fuzzy. I do not have a photographic memory so I have trouble remembering. When my older brother learned to read he tried to teach me, but at the time I was 4 and I would rather throw blunt objects at him. My earliest memory of actually attempting to read was my dad showing me the newspaper. He would read off sport results from the games and began to teach me by reading sports articles.
Tyler:
I don't remember much of learning how to read. I know it was hard for my mom to teach me because she had to teach my twin sister at the same time when she was a single mom. The only thing I can remember is reading my first book, Dr. Suess' Green Eggs and Ham. I guess I was a quick learner because I could read the whole book before my sister. I can't remember how old I was at the time.
Comparsion:
Family seems to play an important part in both stories. We were both taught by our parental gurdians. There are several differences in our stories. Brian learned to read by looking at newspapers, while Tyler learned from the master of rhymes The Dr. Seuss.
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