Why I added CC on my own blog?

Creative Common  is one of the most visible protagonists in ‘remix culture’, and in recent years, it has become mainstream. The inventor of Creative Common Lawrence Lessig explained that the “culture of remix as a paradigmatic turn from a passive read-only culture to an active read-and-write culture” (Medosch, 2008:75). CC is international working non-profit organization, it makes it different from those  ‘piracy’ for commercial profit.  As CC explained on its own website:＂Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation．＂

As a university student, I found that Creative Common is very useful and helpful, it allows me to adopt other people’s idea and work freely and share with others whenever I want. Criticizes of Creative Common argued that it is a form of giving up copyrights and intellectual property, but CC will allow its creator to choose and mix between different levels of freedom and protection, that’s the creator’s own intention for the work to share or not with other people.  While the work is published by CC, the author will still retain ‘some rights”, like Medosch, at the time his book were sold as hard copies, he allowed a PDF under a CC licence.

I would like remain to use CC to share stuffs and looking for entertainment. CC helped many unwell-known creator become available to the public,  without CC, we might have no ideas how great these works are!!

 

Reference:

Armin Medosch, ‘Paid in Full: Copyright, Piracy and the Real Currency of Cultural Production’, in Deptforth. TV Diaries II: Pirate Strategies. London: Deptforth TV, 2008, pp75

Anti-Piaracy

In this week’s tutorial, our group have looked at the  ‘anti-piracy PSA’ vedio. There is no wonder that ‘FREE’  movie CDs attracted a lot of people, and most of them do not care whether they are piracy or not, and whether there are many people will lose their job due to the spread of piracy vedio, as long as it is free or cheap, people would love to collect them. In the anti-piracy vedio that we found, the gentleman even don’t care the poor lady stand in front of him, because if he took the free movie CD, she will lose her job. he took two of the free movie CDs  in the end;

There is a real chanllege to prohibish piracy action, million of us are download free music from the internet, use iphone or ipod to them.  Is there any of us still keep a CD player at home? Just a few I think.

Computer Literacy Program-World Wide Web

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“The 9th Computer Literacy class was on the World Wide Web. We talked about Google, Google Translate, Google Maps, Flickr, Delicious, Gutenberg Project, Flickr, Web Archive and ended class with an Internet Scavenger Hunt!”

 

Mark Zuckerberg’s Comment on Sharing (start at 0:26 – stop at 0:39)

wordpress.org and web 2.0

WordPress.org application of Web 2.0. Some of the features which prove this link is the way in which both WordPress.org and Web 2.0 allow a variety of user’s voices’ to be heard. Both popular and niche blogs for example are posted, leaving none to discriminated. Additionally, both allow users’ add value to the site, and belong to the community which is generally accessibly via multiple forms of media.

However, the capability of this site to both empower its “producers’ while managing its sustainability can be questioned. As mentioned previously, users are free to contribute what they like to WordPress.org, demonstrating its capability to an empowering form of media.  On the other hand,  users are able to contribute to the website and as such feel a sense of belonging to a community, at the same time, users must adhere to copyright laws and regulations to ensure that intellectual material is protected and this can work against the idea of a decentralised system, as there are still restrictions imposed on users.

Joanna. Jenny Tracy