a) Cite your selection in MLA style.
Lessig, Lawrence. "Do Copyright Laws Stifle Creativity?" Online video clip.
YouTube. YouTube, 12 Mar. 2009. Web. 11 Feb. 2014.
b) What is the central message of this text? Please explain it in your own words.
The central message of this text is that increasingly, outdated copyright laws are being manipulated and put to use in a ludicrous manner. This is resulting in the suppression of people’s ability to generate and share their own creative expressions.
c) How would you define your position as an audience member (resistant, neutral, etc.)? With your own position in mind, what kind of audience do you think the author is trying to reach? Please provide an example to support your answer.
As an audience member I am sympathetic. This is a subject of which I had some prior knowledge on before watching the video and had already formulated my opinion. I believe the author, Lawrence Lessig, is trying to reach a neutral audience. After showing multiple videos in which different types of creative expression are shown, Lessig branches off into the topic of copyright laws. He introduces this topic as something new when he states, “So much is not new, there is something that is new.” This implies that the audience would not already be aware of the type of occurrences being discussed and therefor they would not have already formed an opinion making them neutral.
d) What appeal(s) are being used in this text (ethos, etc.)? Give a specific example from the text to support your answer.
The two appeals used are pathos and ethos. An example of pathos is seen in the first case mentioned by Lawrence Lessig on copyright misuse. This case is about a mother recording her young child dancing and finding out after sharing the video over YouTube that the owner of the music’s rights was demanding it be removed. When questioning the behavior of the people who are taking advantage of these laws, Lessig’s tone of voice changes and he even becomes sarcastic referring to the actions of this mother as an “extraordinary abuse”. As well the appeal ethos is used. Although the author does not verbally provide background information on himself as an authority on the subject, he presents himself with great confidence and assuredness in the topic.
e) Did you find the argument persuasive? Why or why not? If you were in charge of editing this example, what would you change?
What is the message the author is trying to convey? How does (s)he convey this to the reader?
...ploying strong technical terms and establishing an extrinsic ethos, and exercising sub-arguments that would only benefit numerous groups of people, May strongly achieves his strategy of argument through ethos in terms of rhetorical persuasion.
What is the central message of this text? Please explain it in your own words.
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