Transformative Use & Fair Use Law as they Apply to Girl Talk

Girl Talk is a mash up artist that samples hundreds of songs using small fragments of each. He combines all these song fragments and creates an original piece of music through it. Some argue that Girl Talk is breaking copyright laws. However, I would argue that Girl Talk's music is legal because of fair use laws. Fair use states that one can use copywriter material as long as it is for transformative purposes. I think Girl Talk's work is transformative enough to classify as fair use. However, many would disagree with me and argue that is music has not altered the original music sufficiently enough for it to be consider Fair Use.

Fair use is extremely subjective, however to determine between copyright infringement and fair use a judge and a jury look at an array of factors such as the length of use or how much of the copyrighted content they using, why they are using it, and the subjective part of did they sufficiently transform the content into something new. Personally, I think Girl Talk did however like I said it really all comes down to a matter of opinion. There is no right or wrong. However, considering Girl Talk has not been sued or charged with any form of copyright infringement leads me to believe lawyer must think he has a strong argument using fair use and that is why no one is taking him to court.