Mashups and Their Consequences.

Mashups have been around for many years. Mainly popular in music when DJ’s are usually mixing two records into making their own remix out of it. Funny thing is that sometimes these mashups are better than the original record. The problem is that when a lot of producers, DJ’s or anyone who is making a mash-up available for the world to hear on platforms such as YouTube, Soundcloud or any type of streaming service, there are copyright laws that can get your mash-up taken down. I am for this because I believe everyone deserves their cut especially if you are sampling someone else’s work. I have been in many situations where my producer and I would sample a song and an amazing beat has come out of it. Whenever we tried getting that sampled record’s cleared, we would usually get denied. Some artists don’t want you using their music and a lot of the times if you aren’t a big enough artist, they don’t feel like they can make any money out of you. It kind of sucks because when you’re an emerging artist, producer, etc you try to use anything you can get ahold of to create but with all these copyright laws, you are also very limited with what you can create.