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So after I finally figured out how to drop off my works in the dropbox online 4 days after everyone else did (I assumed if I uploaded them to my locker that would be sufficient, apparently not) I had time to take a look at others and reflect. This assignment was interesting, though the more and more I viewed others the less and less I could grasp the argument. Some were clear, others not so much. This means either be need more practice visualizing arguments, fabricating visual arguments, or just arn't used to an assignment like this. Perhaps if we had more of a free culture, we would be able to familiarize ourselves with assignments like this more frequently, and the results would be better.I didn't find using the creative commons restricted my vision much, especially because I typed in images until I found a centerpiece then worked around it. I could see copyrights really infringing on peoples' ideas however and so when I did my remix (thanks to Courtney's) I essentially just put some famous peoples' thoughts on intellectual property and copyrights.
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I would definitely have to agree with your argument, that if perhaps we weren't constrained by copyright laws and flourished in a free culture, we would be able to discern and pick apart these collages. Our mind would be expanded and allow us to be perhaps set free to think 'outside the box'. I have always thought about how I could perhaps think outside the box in those situations and that might be one answer!
I also think that if we had more free culture this would have been an easier assignment because we probably all would have done assignments like this already. But of course, it also has a lot do with creativity and I don't consider myself very creative...so that could be part of the problem!
You've brought up an interesting twist to this issue that we really haven't focused upon in class. Up to this point, we've been hammering the idea that copyright restricts the natural development and nourishment of our culture. However, copyright itself also has an effect on our modes of thought, such as interpretations and perhaps designations of value, which, in turn, affects and becomes part of our culture.
I would first like to agree with the upload difficulties. I also had some with Photoshop and understanding exactly what point certain pictures were trying to make. I like Bridgett's comment too: thinking that we would have had more assignments like this if we weren't constrained by copyright. In how many classes, not just Art, Music or English, might we have had a far different syllabus if copyright weren't there to stop people from using material.
I hadn't ever thought of copyright this way before. Clearly it stops individuals from using things, but have schools ever given pause to assigning things because of fear of copyright infringement? how different might our curriculum be?
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