To begin with, DJ Earworm has the same right as anyone to use these pieces of music even though they are under copyright. As he mentions in the article, DJ Earworm believes that he follows the “U.S. Principle of Fair Use”(Morse) ; therefor, allowing him to not be attacked by the copyright of the songs. As long as he doesn't benefit financially from these songs, which he does not, he shouldn't be sued for his works. Also, an alternative to use copyrighted material would be for Earworm to use music under the Creative Commons tag. Songs with Creative Commons are …show more content…
When violating a copyright of a song, it is common knowledge to know that any use of the song could be subject to copyright terms.DJ Earworm does violate this rule but, in a small way. He uses parts of each song to create his own, new piece of music. It is of the original artists and companies benefit that he uses the music in this fashion because it allows for their songs to spread among audience and could cause one to purchase one of the songs if they are interested. The companies could benefit from people watching the original music videos on YouTube as well and just having a general audience for that artist. Others might believe that DJ Earworm is getting the better end of an agreement when it comes to use the songs. However, this argument is incorrect because DJ Earworm is only getting himself noticed with these mashups and isn't actually making direct money off the videos. Yes, he is making money, but it's not from the videos revenue , it's from DJ gigs that he gets hired to do due to his growing