Newstory Reflection from CHARLENE

Culture jamming has been a new trend in the recent years, especially on the Internet. A group of people meet on the Internet, for example, on some discussion forums or in chat rooms. They may not know the real background of each other. However, they called each other buddies or even brothers or sisters. They group together because they share the same view or they are having similar interest, that is, culture jamming. This group of people has created a sub-culture group.

Recently, I have read a newstory about the producer of the song “小明上廣州” which is very popular on the Internet. The producer of this song, Mr. Ho Pui Ching, is an outstanding student from the University of Cambridge. A lot of net buddies think that it was very funny. They produced several culture jamming versions of that. However, Mr. Ho did not get any benefit from that. In the newstory, it mentioned that Mr. Ho did not get any copy right tax from these culture jamming versions of “小明上廣州”. This has rise up a question to me. Is culture jamming a kind of copyright infringement? Actually, all culture jamming is based on an advertisement or song etc. Therefore, it should link to the copyright problem. I think none of those “culture jammer” will get the copyright before they create those culture jamming products. Therefore, I think that culture jamming not only will hurt the victim, also it has created the copyright infringement problem. This is a problem that deserves our concern.

Here is the MV of “小明上廣州"



Newstory Link:
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/article/110122/4/md1t.html


Newstory Reflection from CHARLENE, Yim Yat Sze