Appropriation.

I was perusing my classmate’s blogs to see what sort of topics they were discussing, I came across Michele’s discussion of copyright law.  She posted a video that used clips of Disney movies to discuss copyright law.  This video struck me, but not in a way that has anything to do with copyright.  It was appropriation!  Since clips of copyrighted audio or video can be used for eduactional purposes, the creator of this video used his copyrighted source material to kickstart a discussion about copyright itself.  Because the message of the video didn’t exactly agree with modern copyright law, the video was especially interesting.  The copyrighted characters were sending a message that was anti-copyright.  This piece is a great example of appropriation at it best.  It uses a myriad of sources to create an entirely new message – a message that is even more interesting in the light of the message of the sources.  Here’s the video if you didn’t already see it on Michele’s Blog.

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