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Storylab: Copyright and A New Theory TEDtalks

I watched Copyright is Brain Damage by Nina Paley and A New Theory of Human Intelligence by Scott Barry Kaufman on TEDtalk

Brain 
The first video I watched was with Kaufman. As someone who went to a very small school in a very small town I know how poor education can be and how misconstrued it is. Our SAT and ACT scores are all most schools pay attention to. They do not stop to think that maybe some people learn differently or maybe some are not as good at taking tests or being under pressure. Kaufman touches on this in his video and it is very enlightening. Through his life people told him no. They told him he is not smart enough, but he creatively made his way through to Yale and graduated. Throughout school he made A's but because he test score was below average he was not even looked at twice. It is so frustrating to hear over and over again. It is obvious there is something wrong yet we continue to do the same thing. I think it is actually the definition of insanity to do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result.

Copyright brain damage
The second video was a bit more unique to me. Paley gave me a different outlook on copyright. She says it is something that keeps creativity away. When people ask, "Wait, can I use this?" or  "Is this legal?" there is a problem. When we have to stop creativity to ask if we can put a song or whatever it is in a video it stumps our creativity. Paley says this copywriting is brain damage. I do not run into this issue often but Paley helps me see a different side of things that I had not thought of before. Her video at the end was also very sad but also true. I liked how artistic is was.


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