Essay NCT

Creative Commons is both a solution and yet another failure to deal with authorship and copyright on the internet. Discuss.

Creative Commons is a non-profit organization which was started by Lawrence Lessing. Its main goal is to make it “easy for people to share and build upon the works of others consistent with the rules of copyright.” (About-Creative Commons).This increases the amount of creativity on the internet for public use, sharing and remixing legally. This piece of work, is to critically analyze and discuss the benefits and failures or drawbacks of Creative Commons when dealing with authorship and copyright on the internet.
Creative Commons allow people to submit their work, establish the terms and parameters they wish to have, and publish their work for others to see, share, use, or modify depending on the limitations of the license.(Introduction to social Interactivity online).This means that Creative Commons enables the idea of ‘some rights reserved’ rather than ‘all rights reserved’ which builds up online interactivity of internet users as people can share a variety of information, photos and music without going against the copyright laws. The types of licenses offered are summarized below.
Attribution –Creators allow other people to copy, distribute, display and perform their copyrighted work only if they acknowledge the creator.
Non-commercial –Creators allow others to copy distribute or perform their work only if they are not financially gaining from it.
No Derivative Works. Creators let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it.
Share Alike-Allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.
The above clearly shows that Creative Commons offer flexible rights licenses that help foster legal sharing not stealing thus, emphasises the idea that if one uses someone’s work he/ she has to give credit to the creator of the work.

Creative Commons do not require the explicit consent of the user, but rely on a legal mechanism. Instead of limiting the rights of the user, the license conditionally grants rights normally protected by copyright. If these rights are not acquired in another way, it is reasonable to assume that upon acting against the law but in accordance to the offered license, the license is accepted by the user. The user binds himself to the terms of the license by the sheer act of reproducing, modifying or distributing the work. If the user acts as if he has obtained permission, he is assumed to have accepted the offer and is required to honour conditions of the offer. In the Dutch case Curry v. Weekend (9 March 2006, LJN AV4204) the user of works published under a CC license was considered not have acquired rights other than those offered, which was about the only highlight of the case.( Bas Bloemsaat and Pieter Kleve,2009).

Creative Commons however, falls short in some areas relating to authorship and copyright. Some scholars argue that although a licensor of a work grants liberties to the world by applying a Creative Common license, people can never be sure about upstream authors or co-authors. If we are to assume that A created a certain art, then B shares the art on the internet using a Creative Common license, how will C know that B is not the creator of the art. It is often not so easy to tell the authenticity of the work if the licensor actually used information he would have derived from the actual owner. (International Review of Law, Computers & Technology 245).Creative Commons does not account for such discrepancies which might cause serious problems to person C under the copyright laws.

In Conclusion, I think Creative Commons should be credited for the internet community’s sharing and collaboration although it might have a few drawbacks.

Bibliography

Bas and Kleve, Pieter(2009) 'Creative Commons: A business model for products nobody wants to buy', International Review of Law, Computers & Technology, 23: 3, 237 — 249

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DAY 7 Tutorial Task

Sign an e-petition....
E-PETITIONS CONFIRMATION Thank you Ms Chananda
Your name has been added to the Sex offenders rehabilitation program E-Petition as specified below.https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/view/EPetitions_QLD/Confirmation.aspx?PetNum=1345&lIndex=-1

What is Barak Obama up to today?
President Obama will lay out his strategy for Afghanistan in a speech from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, according to White House press secretary Robert Gibbs
http://www.america.gov/st/peacesec-english/2009/November/20091130152512dmslahrellek0.2036554.html

What do you think of the Australian Government's plans to censor the internet (the so-called "Clean Feed
I think that Australian Gvt's plan to filter the internet is likely going to have negative implications on the internet users,for instance,low speed of the internet as the filtering process might require a few more seconds,or minutes perhaps.This will also mean that people will then be deprived their right to choose their own uses of the internet.There wont be as much access to certain information available to the people.

New Media Ecology? / Summary of the Course Themes

Wow!!!Time flies...i can’t believe that today’s lecture was the last...
In the lecture Adam discussed media ecology and also gave us a summary of the course. He described media ecology as a school of thought which considers how communication technologies have become part of the society.
The main thing that stood out for me is how Marshall MacLuhan summarized his ideas about media as tetrad of media effects. The tetrad is a means of examining the effects on society of any technology/medium by dividing its effects into four categories and displaying them simultaneously. McLuhan designed the tetrad as a pedagogical tool, phrasing his laws as questions with which to consider any medium:
What does the medium enhance?
What does the medium make obsolete?
What does the medium retrieve that had been obsolesced earlier?
What does the medium flip into when pushed to extremes?
I had a great time doing this course in the past two weeks. Like i said on my first post,I enrolled in this course to so gain an awareness and better understanding of the world of computers and the internet. Many thanks to Adam for his great teaching skills which made it possible not only for me to understand the uses of the new communication technologies, but also appreciate and acknowledge the existence in the invisible environment. Thanks Adam!!!!

Lecture 9 - Networked Creativity

The lecture was presented by Jason Nelson and he touched on the interesting and creative use of the new technologies. He introduced us to quite a number of cool websites but the following were of much interest to me.
· The speedtest.net which tests the speed of the internet and it connects to any server around the world.
· Personas-uses sophisticated natural language processing and the internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity... http://personas.media.mit.edu/personasWeb.html.
Jason also talked about portable-apps , a computer program that can be carried around with on a portable device and use on any Windows computer. When a USB flash drive, portable hard drive, iPod or other portable device is plugged in, one will have access to his/her software and personal data just as an individual’s own PC. And when the device is unplugged, no personal data is left behind.....cool stuff!!!
Key logging software-software which records all the keys struck on the keyboard. This is usually used by companies for security reason and in a covert manner so that the person using the keyboard is unaware that their actions are being monitored..
Lunarpages--Web Hosting launched in 1998 in order to provide affordable and reliable hosting for personal websites, small business, ecommerce shops, Fortune 100 corporations, dedicated customers, and more. It hosts the biggest and the best in the industry, utilizing the knowledge that has made us the largest web host in the world.....
http://www.lunarpages.com/about/

Today i was just overwhelmed by the amazing work that can be done on the internet...

Lecture 8 - Being a Digital Citizen (Censorship and Filesharing)

Censorship is the control or restrictions of certain information on the internet. The government may deny its citizens access to certain websites and information, and this is a burning issue here in Australia as the government wants to implement Internet Censorship. This raises a lot of controversies and conflicts with the deontological rights of a citizen. These (deontological rights) are pre-legal rights, (independent of the Law) which exist regardless of the consequences associated with enforcing them. It brings up the idea that as citizens, we have rights that cannot be interfered with.I think that people are rational (able to choose appropriate means to achieve their goals/ desires) and independent so the power of the government on individuals should be limited and they should let people be!
The government’s plan to filter the internet does not only deprive the citizens of their rights, but it is likely going to cause some technical problems as well. It is likely that the internet’s performance will become slow and the prices will also do higher.
In the lecture we also watched a movie, STEAL THIS MOVIE, which discussed the issue of file sharing from a neutral point of view.

Tutorial Task 10

To create a tetrad, and discover insights into any human technology whatsoever, we have to consider the following questions:

Enhance: What does this medium enhance or amplify?

Obsolete: What does this medium make obsolete?

Retreival: What does this medium retrieve from the past, that was previously obselesced?

Reversal: What does this medium reverse into, or, flip into, when pushed to extreme?

Mobile Phone

Enahances-It extends the voice

Reverses-If pushed to exreme a phone might engender a need for solitude

Retrieves-A phone allows a sense of community

Obsolesces-It makes telegraphs unnecessary

E-learning
Intensifies multimedia presentation as a form

Renders printed training material as obsolete

Retrieves many elements of training

Is reversing itself into a blended approach for greater flexibility