Prompt: You should answer in more depth and detail the question we started talking about in class on Monday, using examples from the videos we've seen and from your own experience, and connecting the examples to quotations from the readings: what are the most important "harms" that you, personally, see facing the ways intellectual property operating today, and how are those different from or similar to the harms faced by previous generations?
In class on monday my group was faced with the question of what types of sharing that wsu students and staff currently engage in, and what types are the legal, economic, and ethical implications of doing so? My group came up with tons of ideas. Economic problems that staff and students contribute to are the use of libraries because the school has to pay for the use of articles and books and allowing students and staff free access to the books. Other types of books that can cause economic problems would be textbooks because students either find ways of getting the books by sharing or they sell their books for prices well below the market value which means that the publisher is losing money. Some legal issues that students and staff have is with file sharing because some students use this and it is illegal because of copyright laws. Students and staff also face the problems with making sure that they cite their sources and also cite all the types of things they use in their works if they don't it is either plagiarism or copyright, having either of these happen can cause major legal problems for the person using the source. Some ethical implications our group came up with was that old tests and papers that students keep a collection of a give to other students to help with tests or papers. These types of things have ethical and economic implications. The ethical implications are the integrity of the student using old tests to cheat or old papers to cheat, the student will have their own conscience guiding them and telling them what is right and what is wrong. The economic implications of tests and papers that are being recycled means that the money that you pay for the class but you cheating yourself out of the money you are paying for the class.
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Blog 2: Lessig 85-115
Freestyle: Based on the movie Copyright Criminals.
The movie Copyright Criminals made me think a lot about last semester when I watched the movie RiP: A Remix Manifesto. I loved this movie I thought the ideas in it were good arguments to challenge the copyright laws and bend the rules for art. The best part of the topic is listening to people like Girl Talk talk about his passion for making art. Copyright laws on music (as we learned in class) is different than other copyright laws. Movies like this make me want to join the side of the remix artists and challenge the copyright laws. But I also feel conflicted because as an artist myself I also do not want other people using my art and calling their own. I did not realize this till I was in my graphic design class and I was creating digital pieces of work that could easily be altered and changed to remix them. Also as an artist I want to be able to use other peoples art and make my own because remixing can fuel creativity.
This creativity and wanting to keep my work as mine can be conflicting. To help solve this problem Creative Commons was created. Creative Commons was created to allow people to get copyright license for free. You also get to choose how people use it and how people republish it. The author can choose if they can use it for commercial purposes or not. As a creator myself the ability to allow people to use my art and alter it just as long as they give me credit. Publishing your art via Creative Commons helps some artist get their work out there and also use other peoples works to create new things.Sunday, August 25, 2013
Blog 1: Lessig 21-47
Prompt:
From the Lessig and Gleick readings the talk about about the 'right to tinker.' What are some other good examples you've seen in the DTC major of you and your peers using the right to tinker? How much has that right been constrained or opened up by the technological tools you use?
Response:
In the DTC major personally I have used many different types of inspiration these types of inspiration usually help me in my art and other multimedia projects. Specifically in my DTC 336 class I used google images quite frequently for inspiration or for elements of my designs. A project I worked on for class was to take three logos from different companies and mold and mash them together. Once we came up with a single logo using elements of the three we came up with a new company name. This is similar to what disney did when he took inspiration from the Grimm stories and took inspiration from them to make his own stories but still using the basic plot line. The logo I designed is below the inspirations and elements came from the companies Burton, Roxy, and Monster. This class used inspirations from many different companies. For the final project in this class we were asked to redesign or design for an actual company, or show, or book. Many of my classmates decided to to redesign logos for companies. The 'right to tinker' has allowed DTC students to use found items in projects or alter found items for projects as well.
This 'right to tinker' has improved and hindered the creative process. The tight copyright laws have helped designers be creative and make new types of designs and has helped their creativity create their own works of art. It also helps because it allows other artists to protect their work from being stolen. The 'right to tinker' has allowed us to take designs and alter them as long as the author allows alterations and credit is given. Copyright laws have hindered people from taking pieces of other designs to create something new. These things are called remixing, these remixes have cause people problems with the law.
From the Lessig and Gleick readings the talk about about the 'right to tinker.' What are some other good examples you've seen in the DTC major of you and your peers using the right to tinker? How much has that right been constrained or opened up by the technological tools you use?
Response:
In the DTC major personally I have used many different types of inspiration these types of inspiration usually help me in my art and other multimedia projects. Specifically in my DTC 336 class I used google images quite frequently for inspiration or for elements of my designs. A project I worked on for class was to take three logos from different companies and mold and mash them together. Once we came up with a single logo using elements of the three we came up with a new company name. This is similar to what disney did when he took inspiration from the Grimm stories and took inspiration from them to make his own stories but still using the basic plot line. The logo I designed is below the inspirations and elements came from the companies Burton, Roxy, and Monster. This class used inspirations from many different companies. For the final project in this class we were asked to redesign or design for an actual company, or show, or book. Many of my classmates decided to to redesign logos for companies. The 'right to tinker' has allowed DTC students to use found items in projects or alter found items for projects as well.
This 'right to tinker' has improved and hindered the creative process. The tight copyright laws have helped designers be creative and make new types of designs and has helped their creativity create their own works of art. It also helps because it allows other artists to protect their work from being stolen. The 'right to tinker' has allowed us to take designs and alter them as long as the author allows alterations and credit is given. Copyright laws have hindered people from taking pieces of other designs to create something new. These things are called remixing, these remixes have cause people problems with the law.
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