Soundscape

-Birds cawing from outside the window (reminder of outside world), comes and goes

-classical music from unknown source (calming), continuous

-irregular noise of car motors revving their engines from outside the window (hectic)

-vacuum cleaner humming from within the room, loud and tense noise for about 2 min.

-occasional vibration of phones receiving text messages

-consistent pen scratching paper with occasional page flipping, calm and focused sound

-random socks rubbing against carpet from within the room

-muffled voices from hallway, occurred for about ten seconds (disruptive? and casual)

-heat turned on

-coughing (tense and occasional)

-doors closing and keys turing in locks (random and common, from hallway, spastic and annoying)

-soft ticking of wall clock, stressful and continuous

Good Copy Bad Copy

The film, Good Copy Bad Copy explored the role of copyright laws in today’s world of streaming and piracy. Through interviews with people of various perspectives, the underlining message of the documentary seemed to encourage the restructuring of copyright laws to be compatible with today’s technology. One question that I believe is worth exploring is, “what is the purpose of copyright?” Dan Glickman, chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) acknowledged that creators play an important part in stimulating culture, and their rights should be protected. At the same time, Creative Commons works with artists, allowing them to individually decide which rights they would like to attach to their work. For example, this documentary emphasized the need to share art and be open to new methods of copyright; in other words, it was completely appropriate to have this film be streamed without charge. If the film had been distributed commercially, the creators would have contradicted themselves. While artists should be protected and compensated, there must be a compromise between the producer and consumer. Streaming has become the norm, piracy unstoppable, and corporations disliked by many. This has not always been the reality, but the fact of the matter is that the world has changed and with that the laws must soon follow because the government is meant to reflect the people. Artists should be compensated, but perhaps how they sell their work will have to be restructured.