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Assignment 7

The readings and the videos was very informative but I liked the second video better. It was fun and a lot easier to understand compare to the video “The Law is Strangling Creativity”. Copyright is becoming something huge as time goes by, as it was mentioned in the video, before the copyright owner had the rights for only 14 years, then it was increases and now the copyright owner has the rights for like forever. Before it was not such a big thing as it is now that’s because before the copyright owner did not make as much money as they are making now. I do agree with the fair use, movies like the “A Fair(y) Use Tale!” should have legal protection as it’s creative and it’s using only part of the movies and it’s showing a whole different thing compare to the original movies .

Your reading & blogging assignment for Monday, October 3

Next Monday we’ll be discussing privacy, especially how the definition is changing. We’ll spend some time reading and discussing the challenges to privacy presented by use of digital media and online networks.

There are two readings for Monday: Marshall, P. (2009). Online privacy. CQ Researcher, 19, 933-956.
boyd, d. (2008). Facebook’s Privacy Trainwreck. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 14:1, 13-20.
Your blogging assignment is one reading response blog post.

Slides from today are available here.

Enjoy the short week – remember, the college and library are OPEN all week!

~Prof. Leonard

Notes from today, and your reading and assignment for Monday, September 26

We’ll be moving into discussions about issues in information and media. On Monday, we’ll be discussing access to information — personal and institutional. Over the next few weeks we’ll read and discuss other information issues: privacy, ethics, copyright and fair use. For Monday, please read Martin, The politics of research, from his book Information liberation: Challenging the corruptions of information power and write one reading response blog post.

Classes are cancelled Wednesday, September 28 through Friday, September 30. The college and library are open.

Slides from today are available here.

The Problem with Music

Here is a link to the Steve Albini article I mentioned in class, originally published in the zine Maximum Rock ‘n’ Roll. Though it’s quite dated, and highly critical of record labels, it provides vivid examples of some of the issues we discussed in class today.

Enjoy! And please let us all know what you think in the Comments below.
~Prof. L