In both, I tried to make a point that corporations are benefiting at the expense of artists and their creativity by fining them if they break any copyright laws. As you can see, in the first image the artist is being crushed by the copyright sign and the businessman is using the sign to reach the money on the tree. The second image is demonstrating the same point with a small difference: the artist is using a pulley to push the official up to reach the money. I personally thought the first one was easier to do because I could use any image on the web. It was a little harder to find the images for the second image but wasn't too bad thanks to the creative commons website. Overall, I think I did a better job for my second set of collages than my first. Between the two collages of the second set, I liked my first collage better because I had more images to choose from but they are very similar and make the point just as effectively in my opinion so in my case the restrictions didn't really stifle any creativity. However, I can see how in other cases, that could be the case because the images that someone wants may not be on the creative commons website because they have a much more limited number of images.
This experience changed my view on authorship and copyright somewhat because before I wasn't really aware of how many legal barriers artists had. I think as long as artists have the patience to go through all the legal barriers, it wouldn't have a negative impact on creativity, but looking at the population as a whole, I think it will have a negative impact because I doubt many people will be willing to go through the extra work of getting permissions for every image they want to use.
3 comments:
I agree with your assessment of your collages. While the first set was humorous, it didn't have the depth of meaning that these newer ones have. I agree with you that copyright is allowing a select few to get rich at the expense of the artist.
I too, had a really hard time working photoshop. I think that was the most difficult aspect of the project. I think it's really cool that you decided to try your project again, after seeing that you didn't do what you thought you should've done. You could've just said "oh well, oops." but you re-worked it, and did a better job the second time around. I like them.
I really like your new images. The crushed artist under the copyright symbol while the businessman takes money that is just growing on trees. Excellent idea, and I'm glad that you wrote about the crushed artist in the first one, I don't think that I would have seen him otherwise.
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