Questions

I guess the biggest question that I have about my project so far is: is it posing an argument to the audience? I really want to show how the internet allows for its users to take other people's art, in this case poetry, and spin it and make it their own art. Like I did with Pablo Neruda's poem "Love". But I think also what I want to see with my project is that it allows poets to see how many options are out there for them-- to get published, to find forms, to find help, to find whatever they need-- to know that there is an entire network out there for them to use and abuse.

Lessig explains in Chapter 3 about how it is either a win or lose scenario as far as copyright goes. "The "copyright wars" have led many to believe that the choice we all face is all or nothing. Either Hollywood will win or "the net" will win. Either we're about to lose something important that we've been, or we're going to kill something valuable that we could be. Whoever wins the other must lose."

He goes on to state that he doesn't believe it should be this way, that it doesn't have to be a read write society or a read only society that it can be both. "This future need not be either less RO or more RW: it could be both." I believe that this is something that I am showing in my trailer. Like with "Girl Talk" I am taking someone else's work and I am putting a different spin on it. I'm not adding anything or taking anything away from it, but I'm contributing my own spin to it, by allowing other people read and interpret it in the way they present the lines to the camera. Not only am I reading Pablo Neruda's poem, but I'm also rewriting it in the voices of several different persons.