For me, the second version (the one with all pictures from the public domain) was easier, simply because I took my own pictures. However, I feel that the first version where we could "rip, mix and burn" fully captured my ideals more and was definitely more challenging, but also more fun to create. I was able to search ideas on the internet, and most often I ended up finding more pictures that I hadn't even thought to use. This experience really showed me the value that other people's work can hold in sparking our own creativity.
Doing this assignment, and especially reading Lessig's book really helped me get a grasp on copyright policies. Overall I really think that since technology has come so far in the past few years, there definitely needs to be changes to copyright law to allow a "some rights reserved" type of society.
Just for fun, here are some of the original pictures I cropped/etc. to create my first sampling project-see if you can tell where I used them!
2 comments:
I definitely agree that there is great value in looking at other people's work in "sparking" creativity. As an interior design major, our profs flat out say that we should look around us for inspiration, whether its nature or other people's work.
Ha ha, I like the pictures you included. I would not have thought to use those. Cool idea!
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