LaKeshia's original post:
To Copy or Not To Copy, That is the Question..................
Copyright is an issue that is baffling and frustrating to me. It can be viewed as something as simple as a picture or a song or a book. From my understanding some say copyright is not about use but more about permission. All the talk and information out there may confuse folks on copyright, "you can use it, you can't use it." That is enough to make your head hurt.
The GoodCopy/BadCopy documentary was interesting because it explored the different aspects of copyright. It touched on 'music' which is a constant battle today. There have been people who were fined millions of dollars for downloading music for FREE! I will admit, I fell for downloading FREE music and come to find out, I could have gotten in trouble for doing that. It will always be a battle.
Piracy has become an interesting issue too. People get arrested at our local flea markets for selling DVD and CD copies.
Can you miss this message when you pop in a dvd? I have seen it so much that I can recite what it says.
In one of the Creative Commons
videos, a man ask the question, "what is a shared culture mean if you
can't share it?' That is the question of a lifetime. Creative Commons
came along and allows us to share things but there are restrictions of
course. Good ole' "attribution," meaning just give the creator or author
the credit.
Sources
Blip.tv video: Good Copy, Bad Copy Directed by ANDREAS JOHNSEN, RALF CHRISTENSEN, HENRIK MOLTKE (http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/), http://www.blip.tv/file/359180/retrieved on 6/8/2009
Blip.TV video: A Shared Culture produced by CreativeCommons.org, retrieved from http://blip.tv/file/1192356/ on 01/13/2011
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