Mashups have been commonly popular through the years sometimes getting more recognition then the songs themselves. To begin mashups are a recording created by digitally combining and synchronizing instrumental tracks with vocal tracks from two or more different songs. According to the article “1+1+1=1” by Sasha Frere Jones Mashups find new uses for current digital technology, a new iteration of the cause-and-effect relationship behind almost every change in pop-music aesthetics: the gear changes, and then the music does. Mark Vidler, known professionally as Go Home Productions, explained some other benefits of digital technology to me in London not long ago: “You don’t need a distributor, because your distribution is the Internet. You don’t need a record label, because it’s your bedroom, and you don’t need a recording studio, because that’s your computer. You do it all yourself.” Mashups are posing a potential threat to copyright laws online by being able to access it files through programs there really isn not a way the internet will be protect the files from being copyrighted. According to “INFOENCLOSURE 2.0” By Dmytri Kleiner & Brian Wyrick Web 2.0 Companies, namely control over unique, hard-to-recreate data sources that get richer as more people use them – the harnessing of the collective intelligence they attract. Allowing the community to contribute openly and to utilise that contribution within the context of a proprietary system where the proprietor owns the content is a characteristic of a successful Web 2.0 company. Allowing the community to own what it creates, though, is not.
Apr 30