April's Blog

Final Project

arizzo — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:46:53 +0000

Youtube

arizzo — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:03:14 +0000

Youtube has only been around for about four years but it has changed a lot. When Youtube first came about it had several problems, such as users posting copyrighted material. Users would post a video or clip from a television network or show that was copyrighted, for example the video clip “Lazy Sunday” from the Saturday Night Live television show when the video was posted it got a lot of views and gained more publicity for that show but the clips were taken down many times until SNL made their own youtube channel. When stuff like this happened more networks started making their own channels on youtube changing youtube to not only a video sharing and viewing site but a site where companies can promote their own content.

“Weird” Creative Commons photo

arizzo — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:10:58 +0000

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Internet Archive

arizzo — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:35:29 +0000

I searched the archive for the webiste Myspace. I found out that there were other sites with the same name but the myspace that everyone knows now was put up in 2003 and started to get popular in 2004.

Photostory

arizzo — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:07:18 +0000

All photos were creative commons approved, song Sweet Rock Candy by Seismic Anamoly.

PSA

arizzo — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:47:47 +0000

Listen to this!

Video

arizzo — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:28:24 +0000

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Blog 3

arizzo — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:28:39 +0000

Well most ordinary people would pretty much say that Steven Colbert outright stole Lawrence Lessig’s book. Because of Fair Use it makes this situation a little different. In my opinion what Steven did wasn’t right, but it doesn’t mean that every person who tries to add value to someone else’s work and “remix” it will do the exact thing(s) that Steven did. I don’t think Steven really didn’t add value much to the book anyway — Steven added value to the book’s price, making it a collectors item if he should sell it, he did not add to the book intellectually — which would not be in Fair Use.

Blog 2

arizzo — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:54:03 +0000

1. What rights and protections does copyright give the creator of a work?

Claim over their work and the rights that go with that
The right to benefit from their work
To reproduce their work
To distribute their work
To perform and display their work publicly
To create more work that is similar to the original

2. Why were rules about Fair Use established?

Fair Use was established so everyone could equally access the copyrighted work. And so the owner or the copyrighted work would not excessively profit off the work.
3. What do you think this phrase means? “the production of new knowledge and cultural experience — are important for society”

In order for society to evolve there needs to be new ideas and experiences, if there weren’t society as we know it now would not exist.

Blog 1

arizzo — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:11:36 +0000

“The Long Tail” to me is a way of describing how the media we look at on the internet works. How when one person can be looking at something like a band and then by clicking a link on the bands website you can then view all the same bands under the same label and then end up finding a new lesser known band that you also like. Or if you were on a website such as amazon looking at a book then looking at your recommendations and seeing that same book and others that have similar subjects.

The “Long Tail” benefits authors and musicians by giving their readers/listeners/viewers a way of viewing/hearing their media in a way they otherwise couldn’t. The internet gave way to a new world where you could learn anything you wanted to know, watch anything you wanted to watch, listen to anything you wanted to hear, and talk to people you would’ve never even met. Many websites link to others to share information or to give the viewer something else they might like. Because of this authors and musicians have a new way of reaching people, more people than they ever would have before. Before the internet you would have to go to a physical store to find the book or CD or whatever else you were looking for, then buy it, and then take someone else’s recommendation about what else you might like, even though it may be way off in order to achieve this same goal and find new things you like.