Tuesday morning, 9 h to 12 h
Instructor: Iain Cook
Email: icook [at] alcor [dot] concordia [dot] ca
Office hours: By appointment
Teaching Assistant: Lisa Chan
Email: lis_chan AT alcor.concordia.ca
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thewarehouseblueprint 6:22 pm on September 23, 2007 | #
Comment on Changing Copyright article
An interesting perspective on intellectual property and the issues surrounding copyright. The feeling I get when reading through some of these is that the comments are somewhat out of context given today’s society. Purists seek art for art’s sake and yet there are many who seek to monetize their craft. Either by way of making their passion their livelihood or the more obvious attempts to create and sell artwork. Music is a great example. The success of shows like American/Canadian Idol are chief indicators. There are no contestants seeking to sing for the sake of singing. There are however a bevy of people seeking the cash that comes with the fame. “Art is not defined as business”…Unfortunately, it is.
We are asked, “Should those who might be borrowed from have an absolute right to prevent any such future reuses of their properties, even when the reuse is obviously part of a new and unique work? Do we want to actually put all forms of free reuse under the heading of “theft” and criminalize a valuable art form such as collage?”
The real question is “do we choose to live in a communal society or an individualistic one? “. It is the answer to that question which will govern how we approach the idea of copyright
thewarehouseblueprint 10:40 am on October 14, 2007 | #
Hi all;
Check out the article on downloads from The Guradian. A woman was ordered to pay $222K for loading 24 songs that initially cost her $24. I think it is pretty wild that the music industry is freaking out with downloads. Their reaction of outrage is borne from the fact that they are annoyed at not having been able to monetize their product through the web.
I am not sure what I feel about free downloads. I think most people support sharing or downloading for free BUT that is because they don’t have anything worth monetary value. What happens when you create something that can be sold? Does your view of free downloading change? Money’s an evil thing but one we have to pay attention to. Anyhow, I’m still not sure where I sit. Might be a rhetorical/hypocritical question given that we all “borrow” software but how do guys feel??
What downloading sites are legal and what differentiates them from the non-legal sites?
If you’re a music fan and want to dive into this for the final project, give me a call or send me a note on my blog.
Couple of Tech ????s
1) Got a post on my wordpress blog. Not sure who it was from so if it was anyone in the class…let me know. The clandestine comments are too mysterious. On that note, I posted a reply to the post but it is not showing. Anyone know why??
Ciao
laurakneale 11:06 am on October 18, 2007 | #
Hi everyone,
Lauren Jane and I are pairing up for the final project. We were thinking of studying one of the social networks like Facebook or Myspace. We haven’t developed the idea very much yet so have no idea what angle or what specific aspects we will concentrate on (must schedule to meet Iain).
But I just wanted to ask if anyone wanted to join our group and bring new stimulating ideas to it too!
So everyone is invited, don’t hesitate to be part of the best group ever!!
jonloeb 2:29 am on November 6, 2007 | #
Here’s two relevant articles to our coursework by my uncle Steve Manes. One is a pointed criticism of Lessig: http://www.forbes.com/2004/04/02/cz_sm_0402manes_print.html and the other talks about how little control we have over the privacy and use of our gmail, msn, or other such accounts: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,138839-c,onlineprivacy/article.html#.