Documentary Essay
Media Analysis Assignment
The documentary, "Rip a Remix Manifesto," was about this guy who was voicing his opinion on the copyright and the freedom of being able to do what people are inspired to do. The film does show bias because it is his opinion about the copyright laws and how people should be able to write their own music from little bits a piece from other peoples music because it would technically be their own.
The film maker uses diction to show his bias by using effective words that the people watching the documentary would be intrigued in watching more and the way he talks about it is really exciting but it is also a very informational thing that a lot of people would be interested in listening to. He really gets his point across with what he has to say and how he says it. The creator of the documentary, Brett Gaylor, talks about how it isn't fair that people, like "Girl Talk," get sued for doing something that their passionate about. Some people might not even know that what they are doing is illegal.
Brett also uses the mood of the documentary to show his bias. During the whole thing, he talks a lot about how he feels about the copyright laws and maybe without even trying, he can get the people that are watching or just even listening to what he has to say, feel the same way that he does about it. In my opinion, I think that everything that he had to say was spot on and that it really isn't fair that people would have to pay up to $250 000 for one song that they copy wrote.
His bias is pretty much stating that he does not in no way agree with copy right laws and issues that go in peoples everyday lives. That it's not right that they make people pay that much money for one song that they probably didn't even know that they were doing something illegal. I think that if copy right is so illegal that they make people pay that much for one song, then they should just make it so that copyright isn't even possible to do. That probably isn't even really possible but it should be, just for that fact that, again, most people who do "steal" music, are just downloading it or making a video with the song because they like it, not to do any harm to anyone.
If this keeps happening to people in the future, what do you think that their lives are going to be like? A person wouldn't even be able to listen to a song without being sued for so called copy right. It should be that the copyright laws should be taught in school and that every little detail about them should be explained so everyone would be able to be careful and not copy right at all.
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