"Remix" Response

        Before reading Remix by Lawrence Lessig, I was unaware of all of the strict rules companies including Sony have regarding borrowing and remixing content. The story about Stephanie Lenz recording her baby dancing to a popular song. Since she posted it on youtube for everyone to see she had to delete the video, or else she would get sued tens of thousands of dollars. I think this was a little ridiculous because the song was not even good quality and she probably did not have many views. I these situations artists should just be proud people enjoy and share their music with other people. Also in the story about the John Lennon tributes, they did try to ask permission to pay this tribute to him with a bunch of other fans. However, after a lot of time went by, their permission was denied. I just think there was a lot of back and forth and the company was trying to delay their time so the tributes would just give up. Greg Gillis was another person who wanted to expand consumer's experiences with various song mashups. He thought since he wasn't even close to competing with the real artist as well as only selling a very small amount of copies that he would be fine. However, he also was in trouble and possibly could be sued. Lastly SilviaO was a Spanish artist where someone else had "mutilated" her own work. I do think this person should have asked for permission but I would not call it mutilating her work. Rather this other artist used her ideas to come up with something new. I understand that there should be certain rules with taking other people's work however, not if hardly any damage would go to the artist. Creativity is always cool to hear, however, it is kind of becoming impossible especially with music. These rules should not be as strict.