Like the previous article, I agree that parts of copyright are outdated and need to be reinvented, but I do not believe the solution is all together getting rid of copyright. If, right now, we have the problem that people "with the financial resources to pay licensing fees...get to make songs with sampling", if we were to completely get rid of copyright, I believe that the people with the most power and influence will be the only ones making money off a work. If someone creates a work, and someone else decides they like it and want to get all the credit for it, copyright still exists in that context to protect the original creator. Without copyright, if some nobody made a work and were trying to make money off their creation and some big name, like Beyonce decided that they wanted to take that piece and claim it as their own, more people would buy the Beyonce "made" piece than the nobody made piece. A lot of artists live off what they create, and while a lot of them have enough money to support a small country, not all of them do.
Below I have a youtube of a Star Trek/Battlestar Galatica mashup. It takes the 2009 Star Trek voice over and adds it to scenes from Battlestar Galatica. One of the things I sometimes wonder about, particularly with "trailer" mashups, is how do people know what is real? Someone unfamilar with Battlestar Galatica and Star Trek, might think that's really what Star Trek looks like.
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