Freedom Of Expression

In the beginning of the video, they gave the audience a couple of questions asking us if we  knew some of the most famous songs that go down in history. A song by Jackson 5, and a song by Queen, but they were mashups. The artist 'Girl Talk' uses bits and pieces of those songs and mixes it with his own beats to make a completely different song. So, when I answered that the songs were by Jackson 5, and queen... I was surprising wrong. 

The most surprising thing about this video was the man who was talking about how he was getting sued for his kids copyrighting (or illegally downloading music) on his family computer. Something that was happening in his house and he had no control of or had any idea what was taking place on his computer.

When it comes to the First Amendment, people automatically thing 'freedom of speech', right? Of course. We all do. I have always thought that people exceed their limits when it comes to expressing how they feel, they can over-do it and get offensive sometimes. But i've always stood by the rights of the First Amendment as it states that we have the freedom of speech to say  however we feel. You have to stand by that because everyone is different and has their own opinions and beliefs on things. You simply cannot take that right away from someone just because they believe or speak about something that goes against your rights. I would say the biggest downside of the First Amendment is the harsh, and hurtful things that people are able to say over the news, tabloids, etc.

The rules and standards of copyrights are something that have always been a little confusing for me. For example... There is a local bar/night club here in Corvallis known as Impulse. There's a DJ there everyone weekend that everyone knows of. He is by no means famous and doesn't create his own music. But, I know that he makes his own mashups of music, kind of like the band Girl Talk that this documentary is talking about. Does the DJ at impulse REALLY have rights to all of those songs and is he able to call his mashups his own? Does he create it himself? Or does he download

? That is definitely something I have always wondered because they are really great mashups.

I would definitely say the first thing that came to the top of my head about someone who may have pushed their limits of the First Amendment would be Kanye West at the Grammy's a couple of years back. When Taylor swift one album of the year, he interrupted Taylor's acceptance speech, took the microphone from her and went off about how he felt Beyonce should've won. He was most definitely intoxicated, wether he was on drugs, alcohol, and said some extremely harsh words on live television and really offended Taylor Swift.  I think that West should've been fined to say the least after this scene that he had made. I'm not even sure if anything ended up happening besides an apology to Taylor Swift. 

At first, Part of me wanted to say WikiLeaks may be an irresponsible website. It seems that all of the drama or hidden gossip that they seem to leak out to the public always gets out anyways. Though to me, it seems a bit sketchy, while the speaker in the Ted talk is talking about how he has ways that they get their information... but didnt seem to tell the audience why...  He even said that if they were to find out that the information the leak appears to be false, they just end up deleting the evidence of them publishing as soon as possible. 

I will say, after watching the Ted Talk, it really calls for a lot of  courage to dedicate yourself on such kind of secret. His understandings on informations, and the understandings on the impact of the informations is really way beyond the tradition of mass media. It was a really well spoken interview and changed how i feel about it in a way. He really lead the whole interview in a comfortable way.

They talked about one of his clips that he leaked that was based out of Kenya actually ended up changing the world, which was really impressive.