RIP: A Remix Manifesto is a documentary that talks about a very popular music artist known as Girl Talk. Girl Talk consists of one man named Gregg Gillis and he takes parts from different songs (usually popular ones) and creates new music of his own. He doesn't use any of his own materials at all. A lot of people consider his work stealing and what is known as Copyright infringement; even though he changes the music so much, you can’t even tell what all of the songs he uses are. Girl Talk is known as a mash-up artist, and according to the documentary, mash-up artists have stirred up quite a controversy with both the Copyright Company and the other artists they take their material from.
Copyright problems began once the craze of a new search engine called the Internet was created. It was easy for people to steal music, movies and images from the internet and use them to create their own mash-up piece. Before the internet started, Copyright actually encouraged people to be creative. It wasn’t until websites like Napster began, that musicians and other artists began suing and Copyright had to make their laws more strict. One thing I didn’t know about Copyright was that they are now going as far as making it so you can’t copy a CD onto your computer. So with artists like Girl Talk and the earlier artists similar to Girl Talk, known as Negative Land, they won’t be able to take pieces of music anymore, even if they go out and by the CD themselves first.
