HW Creativity

For example, according to the article "Disney Tolerates a Rap Parody of Its Critters. But Why?", Barnes states that YouTube users post mashup videos that are created by combining the song "Crank That" of Soulja Boy with animated movies, cartoons, or TV shows. Even though the companies whose patents involved are deeply dissatisfied and plan to sue those users, songs like that are extremely popular among people, and "Nickelodeon [claimed] the humorous videos as fair use of its copyrighted content."
From this case, we know that New media like cartoons, movies, TV shows, and the intermediaries (such as YouTube) that spread them provide people an open-source space. Therefore, new mashup videos could emerge and entertain people. Before mashup videos entered people's lives, nobody knew that the video could be in this novel form. Of course, from my personal experience, I have watched some other humorous short mashup videoes that consist of different snippets of different TV series, and all of them edited together in a specific order make sense and funny! Another experience of me could be that in my first English class at Baruch College, my ENG professor let all of us create a selfie video but combining snippets from other people or famous interviews.

Reference:

1. Disney Tolerates a Rap Parody of Its Critters. But Why? The New York Times, September 24, 2007; available at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/24/business/media/24crank.html