fair use arguement

Sex, Drugs and Rock and roll. These three things are often all tied up together very simply in one thing Pop-Culture. Children’s role models are often musicians or actors who have defined pop culture or who’s lives revolve heavily around sex, drugs and music. Pop culture is re-creating our lives today and we are constantly re-writing culture through remixes and fusing pieces of our past culture together. We are creating things to say in different terms giving a better example. I am teaching people or teens through comedy behind the mouths of two famous women in the 1970s and 1990s rock. Stevie Nicks and Courtney Love have both had drug struggles that affected their music and careers as artists. My hopes behind remixing these many interviews is for an educational purpose that the people that watch them find A.) The Humor Behind them and B.) Good reasons to not do drugs.

My video uses Fair Use because I am using satire with the influence of Courtney Love. Who in the music industry is/was a joke because of her drug use, along with everything that revolves around her and Kurt. As far as this being an educational video Stevie Nicks has long made her drug use public and she has made it clear she wants to encourage other people to not use drugs and not fall down the same path that she did. Also she is a symbol in the industry of fleetwood mac and is often called the “goddess of rock”. These two individuals were huge in the late 1970s and early 1990s. I grew up listening to Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks and Courtney Love was a huge joke in my mind. However two individuals who had similar problems in an industry that I one day hope to enter into is a wake up for me and the other musicians out their.

In remixing these videos and throughout the course of this class we have learned about Fair Use as well as Creative Commons. Both of these are legal methods of allowing you to re-mix things and use them for teaching, researching, short summaries of an address or article, use of a parody. Essentially as long as you can argue for your creative right to remix things you can use them. And that is exactly what I am doing. I am citing Fair Use for my remix Drugs: Why Stevie says not to use them. Larry Lessig the main lawyer for the “net” and huge advocate for Fair Use and Creative Commons. Lessig has said that digital technology is going to spread and celebrate “am mature culture”, people who produce things because they love it. Also it reflects the point of how much of a value or generation places on freedom. We want to free and being free is an important essential art of cultural ecology says Lessig. This is how we as a younger generation can become introduce to new things or ideas to our current culture of pop culture.