With the new technology bombarding us daily it is hard to keep up with copyright laws in the first place. However, with the people on sites such as YouTube taking advantage of new technology to create new or change existing works the person who created the original work would have a hard time keeping track. But, are these works really copyright infringement? It's hard to say. However, people like the Gregory Brothers are changing every aspect of the work, even the tone of the voice being spoken. Yes, the persons speech is copyrighted but that is the only thing that can be said to be theirs. So in that light it seems that the work created is not copyright infringement because it is not the original work but a new one all together. Most modern art can be put into the same argument. Does the artist have to pay John Deere because they use an emblem of the deer in their work? That is why we believe that it is not copyright infringement because it is a new work and it is their idea.
The first sign of copyright was in 1709, the British Statute of Anne. The copyright laws began with the printing of books, and only applied to copying books. As time progressed we discovered that many other works deserved to be protected under copyright laws. Maps, photographs, movies, music, paintings, and any other pieces of work that are considered personal creativity became protected under the copyright laws. Copyright did not protect ideas.
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