Workaround Copyrights

I learned of the copyright system, and what they call "Disney Creativity". When Disney developed his animations, he generally took old stories and gave them his own style. He was able to borrow off the ideas of what others had done before him, due to a loose copyright restriction on what was considered "public domain".

Today, that option doesn't exist for the new media artists. Copyright laws are more strict, and public domain is limited to only a few things, such as stories that existed thousands of years ago. But people find workarounds to the copyright all the time. Such as the Youtube users that create parodies of different shows, cartoons, etc. They can build on what others have done without violating the copyright law. They can even make money, through things like merchandise based on their own series and not that of the original show. This has opened a whole new set of options for me as a New Media student.