This film was made to show the general public how ridiculous copy right laws are and how we should have more freedom with the downloading laws. An example of this would be the single mother who was originally charged something like 200, 000 dollars for 24 songs and the total cost ended up being 9000 dollars per song when Itunes lists a song at 1 dollar.
Here is the trailer for the documentry, the trailer gives examples of how Girltalk mixes music. By watching the trailer you will have an idea of how the documentry is presented. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oar9glUCL0
I think this particular documentry makes a good point and is very acceptable because the facts are presented. There is no bouncing around facts even though there is a bias opinion. Even though there is a bias opinion presented it is still the truth and people should realize that the music industry and the lawyers are only out for money.
My thoughts on the Copyright laws have changed tremendously, this film, even though you can tell the film has a strong bias, shows that Copyright laws are out of hand and something needs to be done about it. It is not the same to take parts of a film and put it into your own film unless it is to make fun. Music is different, if you take a second from a song you aren't stealing their music, you are simply building off their music. No music is truly original, it has always been based upon something. If people are not going to let other people base their music upon other music the music industry will decrease decently fast. Take hiphop for an example; it began from old records and repeating the 'break'. Just like Rock and Roll originated from country, blues, gospel and jazz.
I think this film was well constructed and the arguement was constructed even better. I did enjoy watching it even though I didn't find it too interesting, it still presented a very good point.
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