A Remix Manifesto

This week watching, A Remix Manifesto, I had a personal connection to it. The debate on whether you are stealing someone's music or making something of your own is something that is discussed with my parents a lot. Growing up, both of my parents worked in the music business. My mom has worked for the biggest Hip-Hop and Pop record labels in the United States and my father has worked for many different radio stations all across the country. In my mother's line of work, this discussion comes up often. Working for Atlantic Records, the biggest names in Hip-Hop are signed to this label and my mom runs the whole midwest. Choosing which songs she thinks will be the number one hit off of the artist's albums. When an artist decides to drop an album, their is many things that come into factor and one huge thing is whether this artist is stealing someones beats or has a lot of the same lyrics because that can back fire not only on the artist but the record label as a whole. Along with music sharing sites such as Soundcloud where artists use beats produced by non famous producers on their upcoming album; but this is a two way streak. If a Soundcloud artist is using the beats of an famous artist and it gets a lot of traction many lawsuits are filed. One huge controversy was Drake famously stealing the flow along with switching up a little bit of the beat of XXXtentacion's widely known song "Look At Me Now." In the newest album, he released a song called "KMT" and was ripped apart by the media because of the song's beat and flow only being slightly changed. XXXtentacion was unable to do anything based on Drake only changing a little bit of pitch of the beat. Even though fellow artists and the media believed that their should be some sort of legal action taken place since this is part of Drakes reputation.

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  1. UnknownSeptember 29, 2017 at 2:22 PM

    Hello Kaci,

    I enjoyed your post and how you were able to relate it to your parent’s work to show the relevance of this topic in society. Copyright is a major problem when it comes to music because it is seen so often with today’s artists. It is a slippery slope to debate on whether or not a product is collaborated enough on to not be similar enough to an original owners work, which often brings a variety of legal issues to follow.

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  2. Christian WilliamsSeptember 30, 2017 at 10:13 PM

    It was interesting reading your post because of your mothers significance with the music industry. Many times in hiphop I have sat there thinking a songs beat sounds so familiar to another one. It does seem like a subject that is so hard to prove that an artist actually stole someone else ideas. It very difficult to prove that someone else copied someone else artistic ideas. I personally don't think that copyright rules will ever be without loopholes or be full proof. Great post.

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