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 | On December 22, 2009 scg33 wrote: Authorship One of the most interesting nuances of copyright that I had never fully considered is authorship. While the debate on the length of time an author should be granted a copyright is prominent, a seemingly secondary issue, who the author of a work actua (More)  from 0 votes | | On December 16, 2009 dqt2 wrote: A New Expression of Old Ideas: Mmm... Whatcha Say? To be honest, before taking this course I never really thought about the topic of mash-ups. Yeah, I know what they are and I did wonder from time to time why Girl Talk hasn’t been sued yet, but I never really took time out of my day to think about (More)  from 0 votes |  | On December 16, 2009 bsf22 wrote: iStockphoto.com! I’m pretty sure this will be my last blog post, so I’d first like to say thanks to everyone who read, rated, and commented on my posts. I really feel that writing blogs as homework is a really cool idea because instead of sharing my thoughts wit (More)  from 1 votes | | On December 16, 2009 scg33 wrote: Final Conclusions After finishing my final paper (yay!) and reflecting upon this course, I realize the “all is lost” attitude I demonstrated in the last blog is far from how I currently feel. My final paper seems to be a stockpiling of every detail I found intrigu (More) from 0 votes | | On December 16, 2009 scg33 wrote: Reflection The last lecture for this class is over, and I must say I’m left wondering what the purpose of the entire copyright debate is. What progress did we make as a class? Yes, we’ve gained personal knowledge and the ability to generate small talk about (More) from 0 votes | | On December 16, 2009 dqt2 wrote: Webcast Royalties and the Monetization of Online Content For the past few weeks I’ve been working on a paper about Internet radio sites and copyright. Basically, Internet radio sites like Pandora have to pay out different royalties to artists in order to play their songs on their sites. These fees have (More)  from 2 votes |  | On December 15, 2009 sjm73 wrote: Coming down to the wire and finding it shut Tonight (this morning) I sit in Uris’s so-called Cocktail Lounge, surrounded by my stressed out, but no doubt equally guilty of procrastinating peers, trying to hammer my amorphous blob of a document into a paper I can turn in on Wednesday. Lit (More)   from 1 votes | | On December 15, 2009 bsf22 wrote: Fair Use I've been thinking a lot about fair use over the past few days as I continue to craft my final paper. For those of you who have missed previous posts, I'm writing my paper about mashup music, and the issues it exposes with regards to copyright law. I (More) from 2 votes | | On December 14, 2009 sjm73 wrote: My Take on DRM In short, it sucks. Not just for those whose rights it steps on, but for those who think it has a shot at saving the old world media business model. And that is, as Pamela Samuelson so briefly puts it, “DRM GOES BEYOND COPYRIGHT”. That is t (More) from 0 votes | | On December 14, 2009 ehs64 wrote: Still Puzzeled I have always been confused by the pricing schema for the internet. To a computer-illiterate person like myself, the internet is this mystical space where intangible products get posted. To a user like me the internet is nothing more then the screen (More)   from 1 votes | | On December 14, 2009 sjm73 wrote: The new role of privacy We’ve spent most of the semester discussing the impact ICTs have had on our society, and how changes (or a lack thereof) in copyright law have influenced the way we live our lives. Longford proposes a new way to approach the problem of access, fr (More) from 0 votes |  | On December 14, 2009 eac55 wrote: A Fair(y) Use Tale As I was looking for more research for my final paper on licensing, I stumbled upon this video. It's basically an accumulation of a lot of Disney films with portions of sentences and words to explain copyright laws. The irony of the video is that (More)   from 2 votes | | On December 12, 2009 bsf22 wrote: MIT OpenCourseWare Yesterday I wrote a post about Gradeguru.com, a note sharing website that raises some copyright issues regarding website provider’s responsibility to filter copyright violating content. Today I’d like to address a similar issue in the academic wo (More) from 1 votes |  | On December 12, 2009 der32 wrote: A Note About Copyright Last night, I went to my iTunes store to make a (legal) music download, only to find that the download was not possible without an upgrade to the new software. Being forced into a situation with not many options, I begrudgingly downloaded the update (More)   from 2 votes | | On December 12, 2009 bsf22 wrote: Note Sharing in a Digital Age Recently, while I was trying to study for one of my final exams, I noticed that I was missing a lecture from class. Unfortunately the professor doesn’t post his slides on blackboard, so I found myself in a sticky situation. Before calling my frien (More)  from 1 votes |  | On December 11, 2009 jp589 wrote: My First Tethered Device! There's a reason the umbilical chord dies when a baby leaves the womb. I learned the value of generativity early in high school, when I realized my Father had a trove of old PC terminals in our basement from his days running a small business. Thes (More)  from 0 votes | | On December 7, 2009 ebg26 wrote: Final Thoughts on Copyright and the Future Throughout the semester we've tracked copyright law through the ages and weighed the implications of the current system. The final critique by Eva Hemmungs Wirten represents a succint analysis of the ways in which we should conceive of copyright la (More)  from 0 votes | | On December 7, 2009 ebg26 wrote: Final Thoughts on Copyright and the Future Throughout the semester we've tracked copyright law through the ages and weighed the implications of the current system. The final critique by Eva Hemmungs Wirten represents a succint analysis of the ways in which we should conceive of copyright la (More)   from 4 votes |  | On December 6, 2009 ils9 wrote: Goodbye copyright :( So, the last copyright post...we've talked about a lot this past semester. Probably the biggest lesson I've learned from it all is that there is no right answer, nothing is clear, and everything will continue to change and adjust. In the future the (More)  from 0 votes | | On December 6, 2009 jpk223 wrote: Who Owns the Weather? As the course draws to a close, we left with discussions of where copyright will go in the future. We emphasized the importance of adhering to certain priorities when implementing new laws, or when modifying current ones. We spent a lot of time this (More)   from 3 votes |
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