The filmmaker made this documentary to voice his opinion on remixing and copyright. His friend, an artist named Girl Talk is not allowed to publish his music, which is essentially samples from the music of other artists. Instead of remixing one song, he remixes several songs. This is frowned upon by copyright laws, even though he indicates where he took the samples from. I personally agree with the filmmaker that this is silly, it's not as if he claims the samples themselves are his own.
There is indeed a bias on the filmmaker's part, but it's okay because.. well.. he's right. Girl Talk does what he does for fun, he doesn't claim the samples to be his own, and it's.. well, it's all good-natured. There was obviously an element of "We're the good guys, these are the bad guys!" but in this case it's kind of true, y'know?
Copyright is sometimes good sometimes bad. The idea is usually that an author deserves credit for his work. Fair. But in cases like Girl Talk's, it's just.. silly. I somewhat agree that everything online should be available for us to re-create. As long as full credit is given to the original creator I think everything should be fine, but in the end it's all up to the original creator, because sometimes they don't want their work remixed.
Overall I think the documentary was really good. It was interesting, enlightening, and thought-provoking. The manifesto itself definitely had a lot of truth to it as well. There was easily a bias, but.. well who cares Girl Talk should be allowed to make music! >_<
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