In our culture to copy an idea or piece of work is prohibited. Although to take an idea or peice of work then try to come up with a new idea is where the line between orginallity and copying gets interesting. When we take ideas and stories then modify them is that still copying or is it a different type of creative freedom. Walt Disney was the master of this, he would take the stories such as the Grimm Brothers tales and change them from dark and twisted to lights and happy portrayls of the tales. This was a simple task do to the fact that the copyrights had expired on the material.
It had been since 1790 that copyrights would expire after thirty- two years. From the work of others Disney was able to create a new type of master peice and profite from it. Now though it has become far more difficult to use the ideas of other people and change them into diffrent works. Copyrights are being renewed this makes it hard for young artist to work an idea and create a whole new story. When idea are created they do not even belong to the artist themself.
Large corporations buy up the product the artist creates and makes it impossible for young artist to create anything similar to the work the corporation bought.To use a type of sound or phrase you would need to buy the privileges to use it from them. This can cost you thousands of dollars to do this. This limits the amount of work out there in the public domain. Not allowing new artists to take certain aspects from previous art and turn it into something new in their own art work.
