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mashups

How are mashups posing a potential threat to copyright laws online?   Mashups are posting a potential threat to the copyright laws especially in this generation because it is so easy to do now. In today’s world music is easily made through apps and software and mashing up songs together has been more easier than …

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Mashups

Mashups are starting to become more common in the music industry today. Mashups are when two or more artists collaborate and create a new type of sound. One artist can supply the beats while the other artist supplies the lyrics. Mashups are innovative ways to bring the fans fresh, new sounds. Mashups could also be …

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How are mashups posing a potential threat to copyright laws online?

Briana J Lugo MCS 244 Professor Brucker-Cohen April 29, 2019 How are mashups posing a potential threat to copyright laws online? Mashups are a mixture of multiple songs to create a whole new song, using different parts of the songs to create a whole new sound. There are definitely many pros and cons when it …

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Mashups Posing a Potential Threat

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 …

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Mashups

Mashups are when an artists “mashes” two or more songs into one whole song and posts it somewhere for people to hear. This has always been a complicated issue between copyright infringement and being able to allow the creator of the mashup to receive monetary value for their work. In “1+1+1=1” by Sasha Frere-Jones, she …

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Mashups

Melanie Beltran MCS 244 April 29, 2019 Mashups are collaborations between two or more companies or artists. Mashups have consequences for companies and artists. In Henry Jenkins’ “Taking the You Out of YouTube?” it states, “YouTube, along with Second Life, Flickr, Wikipedia, and MySpace, has emerged as one of the key reference points in contemporary …

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Mashups & Copyrights

In Henry Jenkins article “Taking the You Out of YouTube?”, it is discussed how Web 2.0 places an “emphasis upon participation, social networking, collective intelligence”. It is a fan culture, which creates sites like Youtube, Wikipedia, MySpace, etc. Jenkins explains “ At the heart of the Web 2.0 movement is this idea that there is …

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Assignment 12: How are mashups posing a potential threat to copyright laws online?

Mashups can be complicated when it comes to copyright laws. Musicians and publishing labels want to protect the music they create while mashup artists would want the freedom of using music that is out there without getting into a lawsuit. These artists want to fully exercise their creative freedom but copyright laws put a limit …

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Mashups

Mashups are something that has been seen for a long time when it comes to music according to Sasha Frere-Jones “1+1+1+1 The New Math of Mashups” it mentions that “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 …

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Group Activity Evaluation – Social Media

Anthony and I did our class presentation on social media. We created six well informed slides about social media.We discussed  how and why social media has affected or impacted us.What we took away from this presentation is that individuals utilize online networking however don’t generally associate as much as they should. Individuals are keen on …

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