Adam Cooke

An email I sent to Adam

Hey Adam.
    I thought I'd email you to give you an update on to how my project is going and to see if you had any input that might help me. I've pretty much got all the research I need, through my own research or from links to other blogs like Matt Roberts, Jonny Burton and Gareth Holloway mainly. Have a gander at my blog if you've got a couple of minutes to spare. http://ethicsandcopyright.blogspot.com/ . I'm thinking about doing a visual essay to put across my points, but I'm also thinking about putting some interviews in there. I'm still a little lost as to what vantage point I'm coming from at the moment, do I have to be on one side of the fence or can I argue both sides? that being Copyright being a good thing and a bad thing. I'd really like to know what you think of the idea.
Cheers,

The response

Chris

I'm going to get everyone together mid next week
and review everyone's findings and developments
thanks for the link
quick scan and it looks right on point
Adam

 

I cant wait to see what other people have got planned on this one.

Matt Roberts

This is an email I received after asking a friend of mine Matthew Roberts, he's given me some pretty good ideas as to what to move onto next.

hello Chris

I have been pretty well tied up with my other briefs, so not done a great deal to be honest yet.

you could watch this movie - www.goodcopybadcopy.net if you have a spare hour and want to sit on your arse and let the info soak in other than that i am not sure. I made music for a living from 1991 until recently, so I will use that to some extent as actual experience (as it has all changed so much over that 16 years)

if i have a stance it is that copyright is obviously a good thing as artists do need to eat (young folk who think that everything should be free are just naïve and haven't had to pay their own bills), but it is also good that there are now alternatives (creative commons etc). Bands and recording artists such as Lilly Allen and the Arctic Monkeys have been using alternative means to promote themselves and have broken themselves onto the market through myspace (without the initial help of a major record label) - but once they're big i guess their record companies will be enforcing copyright to safeguard their investment. It is also true that these days recording artists don't really make any money on actual record sales, but recoup trough music publishing (radio play), Live events and merchandising.

it's horses for courses really, so as long as you show an understanding and bring up some points i guess you don't need to wrap it all up in a neat little conclusion. The chances are that whatever the state of play is with regards to copyright and DRM today,  it will have changed again in 2 years time. I think i will just note how things are in a few solid examples and indicate that I will be keeping my eye on things.

I think once that is done the fun part is making a piece / poster / movie / flash thing about it.

hope that makes sense

see ya soon

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Matthew Roberts

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