Creative Commons is a non-profit organization that aims to widen the publication of works that can be reused and shared by others. The organization has produced several public copyright authorizations known as Creative Commons License. These licenses allow the licensor to permit his or her work to be re-copied and distributed to others, but the majority of his or her rights are protected. Creative Commons License can be applied to various types of work, particularly in the form of a work of art
Creative Commons - America Needs Fair Use Licenses It’s likely happened to you before, you turn on your radio, or favorite music video network and begin listening to a song by some hot new pop starlet, hip-hop superstar, or aging rocker. The beat is catchy, inviting, and oddly familiar, almost too familiar in fact. You may think, “Didn’t David Bowie, or, hmm, wasn’t it that guy from Queen that played this riff in like ten years ago? Who is this Vanilla Ice guy and why is he rapping over it
Learn about Echinacea & why people take it to manage cold symptoms Are you suffering from a nasty cold? Are you sniffling your way through the month, wishing for a remedy? If so, you’re probably researching Echinacea tablets and trying to work out whether or not they might help to ease your symptoms. Today’s article will take an objective look at the Echinacea plant and why some people take supplements, believing it will help them fight the germs. First things first: what is Echinacea? Echinacea
is "A Directory of Wonderful Things" and reports on things like Amazon's poor e-book system and other "wonderful" things (Doctorow - Boing Boing). In addition to his writing Cory Doctorow, is a copyleft activist. Copyleft is the general term for a license that requires the work created to be given away for free, and says derivative work must be licensed similarly. (See watermark) Instead of copyrighting his work and hoping to sell books, he gives his work away for free. This not only helps spread
It is difficult to overstate the important role that the Internet plays in public libraries. Patrons can use the Internet to find information, access services, and maintain connections with social media, while library staff can use the Internet to access informational resources, compile and maintain library statistics, stay networked with other libraries, and store files on "the cloud" . The Alberta government is working to make high-speed Internet available in all public libraries across the province;
A graphic designer has been extremely overloaded with work and the deadlines for all the work are around the same time. The designer is becoming overwhelmed with all this work. The designer decides to look for shortcuts in order to be able to finish all his/her work on time. The designer gets the idea that is would be much easier to steal someone else's work off of the internet and pass it off as their own original work. The designer discusses this idea to his/her peers over a coffee. They all strongly
Remixing original material from different artists has become an important controversy in today’s modern world. The matter of stealing copyright material is taken very seriously and offends a lot of artists. Lawrence Lessig, author of “Remixed: Media” and a professor at Harvard Law School, writes about how he doesn’t agree. He uses several examples and personal stories to back his position and try to get his readers to understand that what new contemporary artists have started doing. Is nothing illegal
in your own words. The central message of this text is that increasingly, outdated copyright laws are being manipulated and put to use in a ludicrous manner. This is resulting in the suppression of people’s ability to generate and share their own creative expressions. c) How would you define your position as an audience member (resistant, neutral, etc.)? With your own position in mind, what kind of audience do you think the author is trying to reach? Please provide an example to support your answer
Wikipedia is a free virtual encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone, who can be anonymous or recognized by their true identity. The website allows anyone to add or delete information, which explains why the website’s information is frequently updated. Unfortunately, the website can be edited so easily, people tend to take advantage of this privilege of editing freely. Anonymous users often add false, offensive, or inappropriate texts or images that can cause confusion or problems for other people
Setting itself apart, Wikipedia focused on substantive content development instead of technology (Garber), providing a mass collection of organized and easily searchable information. Containing over 27 billion words in 40 million articles and written in 293 languages (Wikipedia), it has far surpassed any other traditional means of data presentation. This great success is based and relies on its users to add, edit, and delete articles, however it does not require users to provide proof or research
The author Nicholson Baker wrote a passage about how wikipedia has come to what it is today. He starts out, in a very comical manner, about the main thing of wikipedia is to search and find definitions for any word, term, meaning, and so fourth of things that had been defined thus far on the newly developed website. Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia where any and everybody is the author. That was the main attraction at first for the website. If one has a very profound love for, as Baker mentions in
Biography 2). She was one of seven children, two of which did not make it past infancy (Creative Commons License 3). Her childhood was spent moving throughout Germany and France, (Creative Commons License 4) until her family moved back to Pennsylvania, then continued moving eastward to Lancaster and then to Philadelphia (Creative Commons License 3), where Cassatt started school at age six (Creative Commons License 3). Then continued her schooling at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in
The primary legal issue centered on copyright infringement. The Higbee Defendants argued their website displayed "clear, prominent, and unambiguous language" regarding licensing (Creative Commons Legal Database, 2020). However, the question remained whether the terms were truly transparent or designed to mislead users into infringement. Ethically, the case highlights the tension between open access and creator compensation. The "free
Some consider freedom of expression to be a basic right and if they restrict on this they might stop sharing their creative works and thoughtful opinions. Decreased access to vital information There are different websites on internet that provide useful content and harmful content. It might be difficult for the government to make right decisions about what to eliminate
result of a creative process. Each of these products is covered by copyright, which protects the interests of the creator. Copyright in these products acknowledges both the fact that the creator has produced an article and the right for the creator to be paid for the thought and effort involved in its creation. The laws of copyright protect authors' ownership of their intellectual property. Intellectual property is essentially a generalized name, which is given to copyright, software licenses, trademarks
researcher to be able to differentiate between the two. Another topic discussed was Creative Commons (CC), the purpose of a CC license is to give the creator the ability to give others the right to see, use, and build upon their own work. The creator can decide what licenses they want to apply to their content and this is important because the license(s) applied affect how you can use the content. For example, a “CC BY” licenses allow people to use and edit your
endorses writers who, in their pursuit of the ideal form of writing, claim poetic license along with artistic risks to separate themselves from their peers. The text 's use of the powerful divine image of Pegasus to signify the ideal the writer strives for, along with several reminders that not everyone can achieve the ideal, urges writers to acknowledge the mediocrity that surrounds them and combat it with unique and creative writing, thus reducing the quantity of average writing in the world. The poem
Non-profit Organization Website Creative Commons. (n.d.) About. Retrieved from http://creativecommons.org/about Creative Commons is an organization founded in 2001 whose goal is to help people share their creative work and knowledge using copyright licenses. Work shared through Creative Commons can be used and built upon by others freely and legally. Since it’s inception Creative Commons has gathered millions of works and made them available to the public including songs, photos, videos, and art
mood and substance of visual media, the job of acquiring the music should be put at the forefront of a production, and yet, it is normally left to post-production, when money is thin. Music supervisors provide an important balance of maintaining the creative vision of the filmmaker and adhering to the usually low budget, a feat that is deserving of a higher rank of importance. Music supervision is a relatively new career that reaches across many different aspects of both film and music industries.
“Open source as a development model promotes: a) Universal access via free license to a products design or blueprint, and b) universal redistribution of that design or blueprint, including subsequent improvements to it by anyone” (Gerber, Molefe, and van der Merwe 2010) In the past fifteen years, the principles ‘Open Source’ have exploded into the software industry. (Open Source Initiative 2012; Weber 2004) Open software now rivals the market share and quality of closed, commercial products. (Spinellis