The documentary, 'RIP! A Remix Manifesto', was basically about copyrights, file sharing, and the sharing of ideas to create new things. The documentary showed both sides of the option; mainly people who were for sharing files and for copyrights to 'loosen up' a bit, as well as people who were against it and think sharing files is wrong and illegal. The film shows bias of the author because he thinks you should be able to use things from the past and present to create new things with others ideas. Although the film shows some people that are for copyrights, I think the author only involved them in the film to make them look stupid and to show how copyrights are just holding people back from creativity.

The filmmaker shows bias through story elements such as appeal to authority. He does this by using certain authority figures like Greg Gillis, better known as Girl Talk. He uses him in his film because they both have the same opinion on the laws of copyrights. another way the documentary shows bias is through anecdote. There were many anecdotes shown but one was Jammie Thomas story. Basically what happened was this single mom was successfully sued by Recording Industry Association of America for illegal downloading. She was ordered to pay $222,220 when she only made $36,000 a year. This shows bias to the author because he and others were stating that Jammie's story was utterly ridiculous as for the association to sue her. This happens to many others around the world who download music off of sites that are considered illegal. This shows how stupid copyright laws are to go so out of the way to sue people that are trying to be creative by mashing others songs up, or just trying to download some of there latest favorite songs.

The overall idea to this film and the author is that copyright laws are too strict. The author is not the only one who thinks this so he got a bunch of people together to help him make the documentary and prove their points. I agree with what the film is trying to say, because copyrights are stupid for the fact that they are holding many people back from their creativity in music and remixes.

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