Emma'sIDMblog

 For the group project my role was to research the use sampling in the music industry I also researched the importance of copyright and how its important for artists to own the rights to there songs so no one can steal their songs and take credit for them. I researched different artists and came across Kanye west who used a music sample from daft punk and used it in his own song but gave credit to daft punk and got permission. in another case I researched lawsuits regarding copyright and came across mac millers 10 million dollar lawsuit as he never gave credit to the original owner of a sound that he used and there for didn't make profit off his song.  After conducting this project task I have realised that working in a group makes you have a better understanding for carrying out a specific tasks. I found working in a group quite well and considering the circumstances of the world right now communicating with everyone went well as we had the use of the platform discord which w...

This week I watched three very interesting and informative videos about media representation.my first thoughts about media representation before  watching  the three videos was how  the media tends to  rep resent topics in ways that are unrealistic and tend to give the public a better impression tha n  it actually is.  The first video I watched was called” why representation matters” this video  informed  me about the factors of the  importance  of different cultu res being represented in the media and by doing thi s  to the best ability it is ideally portrayed by people who are in the same boat as what they are  essentially  trying to show the  media.   T hey also talked about the different body types that are shared across different media sources. In my opinion I think that over the past couple of years  body positivity has been talked about so much and there is  defiantly  a greater acceptance o...