Blog4, Sept 14-16 CC

What is creating? Is it something that someone came up with that is complely new or is it taking a creation and making something different with it. After our discussion in class I left very surprised, since I have always felt you can create something off someones original creation and call it a new creation as long as you give that person credit. They do it in music all the time, the Black Eyed Peas for example have taken beats from many different songs and made it their own.

Some people did not think so and said that if they created it, it is theirs and no one should be able to do anything with it, unless they get rights to it. I had said that in order to keep things present and up to date people should be able to recreate peoples works. Someone had said in response to that, that creations are always kept alive and no one needs to recreate anything, and gave an example of the Iliad. I had no response to that at the time, but after thinking about it for a little I have decided to stick with my original thought. I do think that things are kept alive by recreating things, and yes the Iliad is still read all the time, but it is considered a classic, as of other pieces of literature, art and music. But recreation keeps things that werent necesarily considered  classics, and once that generation dies out would generally, disappear alive. For exmample the song You Spin me Round ( like a record), by Dead or Alive, was redone by Flo Rida, called You Spin my head Right Round. If that song wasnt redone, once the generation died out, so would the song.

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