Creativity

New Media fosters creativity by allowing people to create mash-up. Mash-ups are a combination of different snippets of movies and TV shows. Mash-ups have created alot of controversy because although they are pieced together by users (creating an individual work of art) big entities such as Disney often sue these artist for copyright infringements. Now it is important to note that these are billion dollar corporations going after fame-less DJs who create these mashups for fun or remixes. Disney is known for keeping a close eye on its animated characters. Two semesters ago I saw a film in my media class about mash ups, and how long they take to create and the skills they required. The finish product is usually something that sounds or looks like any finished product of the snippets they used. An article posted on nyTimes.com says that Disney believes that any use of its property is stealing, whereas Nickelodeon see the humorous videos as fair use of its copyrighted content.