Write a chapter summary of the book Free Culture – How Big Media Uses Technology and The Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity – on your blog. This will create a series of cliff notes for other students to find. They will be able to create last minute book summary from all the individual chapter reviews. They can use for their last minute essays. Then post a few sentences in the comment section with a link to your blog. Try to make some comments on your fellow students blog too. I am encouraging you to cut, past, copy, and collaborate because I can’t prevent you from doing this. What is the difference between cheating and collaboration?
Piracy (or cheating) is when a person copies some sort of copyrighted material for personal gain which robs the creator of their rightful payment. With the advent of the internet and the word processor this has sped up increasingly because of peer-to-peer sharing. Two or more students can work together and create a paper. One of the students can slightly modify the paper, thus making it look original. Is this collaboration or is it cheating?
Lessig discusses four main areas that regulate or prevent piracy or cheating. They are law, norms, market, and architecture.
1. Law restrains by threatening punishment if the rules are violated (you are going to get into trouble if you copy another students paper).
2. Norms are a form of punishment but it is carried out by the community (you get an F in your class if you get caught cheating, your peer group thinks you are a cheater).
3. The market is the classic constraint through conditions (how easy is it find another paper to copy or to cheat)
4. The architecture or how difficult is it to copy or to take. (how hard is it to cheat or to copy a paper).
In the end what is the difference between collaboration and piracy?
I want you to post your three questions with the answers to this specific blog. These would be great test questions or book discussion questions.
A Digital Democracy 
“Free Culture” by Lawrence Lessig looks at how changes in technology and media result in cultural change. For a summary of Chapter 5, “Piracy”, go to my blog at http://www.the-kellyreport.blogspot.com and no, this does not involve Johnny Depp or Pirates of the Caribbean.
Study Questions for chapter 5:
1. According to Lessig, which type of P2P sharing (a type of priacy) us clearly illegal?
2. What is “addiction strategy/theory”?
3. What is commercial piracy?
For answers to these great test/study questions go to
http://www.the-kellyreport.blogspot.com
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For a summary of the entire book, go to http://www.the-kellyreport.blogspot.com.
you will also find a compilation of study questions for the book at that site.
Free Culture, by Lawrence Lessig, looks at how changes in technology have a dramatic impact on our culture. Chapter 5, “Piracy” talks about the utilization of other’s content/information/creative material. There are no treasure chests but if you want to read more, see my blog at http://www.the-kellyreport.blogspot.com
“Free Culture” is about an result of the Internet beyond the Internet itself and an effect upon how culture is made as well. I posted the summarys of Introduction,”Piracy” and Chapter ,”Creator”1 to my blog at hwwp//www.Theramon-kim.blogspot.com
I hope that the summary of introduction would be helpful to every one.
thanks
3 Questions for chapter 1. ” creator ”
1.Traditionally, what role has played intellectual property in America?
2.How Walt Disney did use intellectual property?
3.How Walt Disney did use intellectual property?
You can find out the answers at the site:http://www.theramon-kim.blogspot.com/
Sorry for mis-typing about question3.
Here is question 3.
3. What is Doujinshi?
In Chapter 8 of Lessig’s book, Free Culture, he describes the advancement of CD-ROM technology made by lawyer Alex Alben. For a summary of Chapter 8, go to http://kcribbin.wordpress.com/.
Free Culture
Chapter 2
“More Copyists”
Chapter two provide a good overview of the changing nature of copyright, and the legislative responses to technological advances. In Lawrence Lessig words “We are building a technology that takes the magic of Kodak, mixes moving images and sound, and add a space for commentary and an opportunity to spread that creativity everywhere. But we are building the laws to close down that technology.”
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Chapter 6 Review:
In the early 1700’s there were laws against who had the rights to publish books with no end date, therefore the prices were higher then in a competitive market. With no competition and the prices of books being high not everyone could afford to purchase the books of the times. This limits people and the culture of the society from ever growing.
Chapter 2
“Chimera”
The author discusses the dual legal and ethical principals behind file sharing. Chapter two connects the analogy of a chimera, with the legal and ethical problems involved when files (in this case music) is shared with thousands of people.
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Chapter Two: (Mere Copyists)
This chapter provide a very good view of how the changing and the nature of the copyright and the technology of taking the pictures or the photographs with the improvement of the filmmaking.
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For summary of chapter 1.
go to
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In chapter 7 of the book Free Culture, Lessig describes that the real purpose of creating law for copyrights was to protect publisher’s profits against the unfair competition of a pirate. But today the law is used for any use, transformative or not.
For more details about chapter 7 of Free Culture, pop into http://nithikars.blogspot.com/
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Nithya
Free Culture – Chapter 10 “Summary”
This chapter is focus on creative property owners must be accorded the same rights and protection resident in all other property owners in the nation…. complete reading in my blog, http://www.free-shipping-gurantee.blogspot.com
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Hi
Please check the link for Ch13
Thanks
Ali
Chapter 4 in Free Culture, Lawrence’s Lessig’s examination of copyright law, explains the inherent hypocrisy in the current war on internet piracy. It’s unfair to complain about pirates and penalize people for it when all major forms of media were born of some form of piracy. Piracy is defined as ‘using value from some else’s creative property without permission from its creator’. Film, records, radio, and cable tv were all built on previous inventions.
Chapter 4 was by far the best in the book. Well okay, maybe it wasn’t, but at least it was short! Find my summary here:
Dave
Chapter 3
Chapter 3 was about a college who created a search engine that out did all other search engines. Jesse Jordan’s search engine was capable of accessing information from almost anyone anywhere. RIAA learned about his creation and filed suit against him robbing the poor college student of what little money he had to his name.
Here is the link to my blog.
http://beerchugger.blogspot.com/
Erik
Chapter 13
In this chapter, Lessig discusses the views of free culture more about works in regards to the United States Constitution and the public domain. The Constitution has parameters regarding the copyright laws where they state they should be in place for a limited amount of time…
Read more here:
http://mesina007.blogspot.com/2009/07/chapter-13-eldred.html
FREE CULTURE – CHAPTER 13 QUESTIONS
Q1. About how much would it cost to restore a 90-minute black and white film in 1993? About how much would the same process cost in 2009?
Q2. In the 26 years between 1923 and 1946, about what percentage of books, films, and music produced are NOT commercially available?
Q3. The Constitution states that copyright terms should be ‘limited.’ Can the US Congress have the power to extend copyright terms? If so, should they be allowed to or is this Constitutional?
Want more?? Find out answers or discuss these further here:
http://mesina007.blogspot.com/2009/08/free-culture-chapter-13-questions-and.html
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Chapter 12:
This chapter goes into more detail regarding the legal aspect of infringement and piracy. It is an interesting look into how the law influences the amount of creativity exhibited by individuals and corporations.
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Chapter 7 of Free Culture Lessig discusses the law of copyrighting. This law is to protect publishers’ profits against the unfair competition of pirates. It discusses the “fair use” theory and how a person needs no permission to use the copyrighted material. However, there are some gray areas to this law, as shown in the case of Jon Else. Read more at http://areagan89.wordpress.com/.
Hi all
The summary of chapter 8
In 1993, Alex Alben who was a lawyer working at Starwave lunched an initiative to develop a product by CD-ROM to build retrospectives on the work if particular actors. Read more at http://kevinweng.wordpress.com/.
Chapter Four: “Pirates”
In this particular chapter its starts off discussing that every important sector of “big media” today in terms of film, records, radio and cable TV was born “of a kind of piracy”.
*here is my blog below on Chapter 4: http://www.maryann2005.wordpress.com
Chapter 6 in the book “Free culture” by Lawrence Lessig talks about the Founders of copyright laws and how the copyright laws have evolved. It is the first of five chapters in the section of the book entitled “property”. Copyright is considered to be property because it can be owned, sold, and the law protects it from theft. Copyrights are a unique type of property because laws have been created that turns intangible things like ideas or expressions into property. For more information on chapter 6 visit my blog http://jenzworld-jeg9qc.blogspot.com.
Chapter 6 in the book “Free culture” by Lawrence Lessig talks about the Founders of copyright laws and how the copyright laws have evolved. It is the first of five chapters in the section of the book entitled “property”. Copyright is considered to be property because it can be owned, sold, and the law protects it from theft. Copyrights are a unique type of property because laws have been created that turns intangible things like ideas or expressions into property. For more information on chapter 6 visit my blog http://jenzworld-jeg9qc.blogspot.com
Chapter 6 Questions by Brad & Jennifer. For the answers to these questions check out our blogs:
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1. What year was the Statute of Anne established?
2. What case allowed for public domain?
3. What did Lessig mean by saying that the copyright law displayed ” extraordinary chutzpah?
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“An Army of Davids”
In An Army of Davids, Glenn Reynolds shades his eyes and gazes into the future, out of which he sees fast approaching the “triumph of personal technology over mass technology.” And he sees more than that, too. This triumph will not bring benefits only to the phone jockeys and laptop warriors who will be the main consumers of the new gizmos. No, the future is going to turn everything upside down. That’s because wholesale societal revolution will come with it: thanks to that new technology, the future will see a veritable “army of Davids” rise up and successfully compete against the few “Goliaths” that have hitherto dominated the world (pp. xii–xiii). Hallelujah and pass the slingshots.
Reynolds covers lots of technological changes in such diverse fields as video games, nanotechnology, space travel, and life extension. And he sets these developments in a historical context: the promised changes will reverse the pattern of recent centuries, in which centralization and corporate/government gigantisms were the order of the day.
Most people have noticed that there’s now this thing called “the internet,” that computing power has exploded in scope, and that advances in biological and genetic knowledge are making life longer and more comfortable. But just as you’d prefer taking shop from a teacher who still has most of his fingers, you’d prefer getting futurology from a writer who shows a deep and subtle understanding of how technology, economics, politics, society, and government interact. Failing that, you’d at least prefer a futurist who doesn’t seem to have gotten most of his knowledge from a couple of Discovery Channel documentaries and some guys’ blogs. It’s easier to know the past and the present than it is to know the future; to read someone who is sloppy on the former is to lack confidence when he turns to the latter.
So what is this book about? The thesis of the book seems to be captured in the words I have italicized within the following quote from the book’s introduction. “I’ll look at the way this change [big to small] is playing out in the worlds of business, media, the arts, and even national security. There were some very good sections in this book. The section dealing with blogging did provide a challenge that the Goliaths of the world ought to consider. The section on horizontal knowledge did a good job of showing how information is increasingly moving horizontally, between groups of loosely-coordinated people, rather than vertically as in the past. Reynolds does prove, to some degree at least, that because of new technologies, the little guy is empowered in a way that was impossible in the past.
The book concludes with these words: “The Army of David’s coming. Let the Goliaths beware”. By the time I had waded through this book, it seemed to me that the previous 268 pages, or the previous 134 at any rate, were really just filler and did not do a whole lot to support this conclusion. I know what Reynolds was hoping to say: that small is the new big and that we are coming into an era where the little guy, David, will have ever-greater influence over the big guy, Goliath. The problem is that too much of the book did not even attempt to support this thesis, and several of the bits that tried falling flat.
I guess I could summarize by saying that I felt this book did not receive good editing. Half of the book could have been left on the editing-room floor and probably should have. Instead, An Army of David’s rambles on through topic after topic which seem to be related to each other only as Reynolds’ personal interests. The book often seems to forget just what it is supposed to be about. I can’t help but believe that Reynolds could have done better.
Summary of the Movie “Startup Dot Com”
Startup.com is a documentary about two friends that do business with each other, and how their relationship shifts from more of a friendship to business associates in conflict with each other. The documentary is gripping from start to finish, it charts the venture from the inception through to its demise, although it focuses more on the early stages. The documentary also shows the effect of the company on the personal relationships of those involved.
The movie starts when Kaleil Iszaza Tuzman quits his job with Goldman Sachs to become CEO of the then unnamed govworks.com. The company is the brainchild of Kaleil and Tom Herman, who have known each other since high school. They are determined to create a website that will allow individuals to easily interact with their local governments to do such things as pay parking tickets. As Kaleil first joins the venture, it becomes obvious that he is a driven and very strong individual; at one point he wants to name the site “untocesear.com”. Tom is a much softer-spoken individual, trying to keep everybody happy and deal with problems. Tom is the technical brains and Kaleil is the money-go-to guy.
In business as in life, things do not always go to plan. Kaleil begins making the rounds of venture capitalists, trying to raise the funds to pay for their operation until they can reach their IPO and start seeing some cash influx. He enters into meetings the purpose of which is for companies to hand over million ns of dollars all on the speculation that it will pay off in the future. It is here that first possible chinks in the armor of the two friends emerge: Tom starts mentioning ideas in meetings that Kaleil doesn’t want to pitch to the investors, and quickly becomes frustrated with his inability to stay on message. Kaliel knows they have to pitch exactly what they want, but Tom doesn’t immediately think the same. Then comes the first major hurdle: a third founder, a co-worker of Kaleil’s from Goldman Sachs decides that the risk of the venture is too much, and he wants out, but not without a compensation of $800,000 dollars. They deal with it as best they can and move on.
The movie major drama really hits when Tom and Kaleil begin having a falling out. Kaleil thinks Tom doesn’t have the technical knowledge to really run that aspect of the business, and is also becoming frustrated that Tom wants to be considered a co-CEO and doesn’t respect Kaleil’s authority. It eventually leads to terse meetings and a letter dismissing Tom from his duties and then the ever famous scenes where a fired employee is escorted out of the building by security.
At the end of the movie, Kaleil states that the company is out of money, and being sold. It’s a shame that the latter stages of the company’s demise are skipped over, we cut from them having over 200 employees to just 50 with no real explanation on what happened in between. The only person involved in this venture who made money was the third company founder who was bought out for $700,000 after investing only $19,000 and a few hours after work for four months. Overall it accomplished showing us the birth and death of a dot com very well, and how it affects those involved.
Free Culture book by Lawrence Lessing (chapter #2)
More Copyists
Chapter two overviewed the changing nature of copyright, and the legislative responses to technological advances. In Lawrence Lessing words “We are building a technology that takes the magic of Kodak, mixes moving images and sound, and add a space for commentary and an opportunity to spread that creativity everywhere. But we are building the laws to close down that technology.”
Taking pictures and developing them was exclusive to the expert photographer until the idea of Kodak cameras had been developed. The cameras were very simple that anyone can do it by just pressing the button of the camera. The principle of the Kodak system is the separation of the work that any person whomsoever can do in making photograph, from the work that only an expert can do. But, there were a lot of arguments about requiring permission before any photographer could capture or print images. Fortunately, the judges said no to the permission. We can’t imagine how the future of photography could be with all the regulation and the copyright.
Democratic tools gave ordinary people a way to express themselves more easily than any tools could have before. The same thing with Kodak happened with the media and the internet. The new technology enabled everyone to express him/herself to be the publisher and the reader. Using technology and whatever “free web stuff” we can be able to mix image, sound and text and publish our ideas. Moreover the internet allows these creations to be shared with an extraordinary number of people, practically instantaneously.
The web-log or the blogger is a form of communication that has grown dramatically. The blog is a kind of public diary for some people; others are using it to engage in public discourse. The best of the blog entries are relatively short, they point directly to words used by others, criticizing with or adding to them. They are arguably the most important form of unchoreographed public discourse that we have.
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Questions for Chapt 11 “Chimera”
1. Are there any examples of P2P file sharing where both the public, and the music industry both benefit?
2. Is there another scenario that can be described as a technological chimera?
3. What are one of the consequences of the music industry gaining complete copyright control of content?
For the answers to these questions, please visit http:// thearmyofdavids.wordpress.com
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1- Did the government blocking access to the knowledge or any in formation?
2- What is the future of idea and copyright law?
3- Did the copyright gift us a free culture ?
you can see the answer in my blog
FREE CULTURE-CHAPTER 14
This chapter talking about copyright law, Eldred Act, how peoples reacting to this idea, and how that will impact the future.
to read more about it, please check my blog:
http://omarshaiel.wordpress.com/
Omar
FREE CULTURE
QUISTIONS FOR CHAPTER 14
-How people get benefit of the registration requirement?
Many people recognize that benefit of the registration requirement. Because of there is no obvious place to look for a current copy right owners in order to use or license their work. So this system would lower the cost by having at least one registry where a copyright owner’s can identify.
-What did the copyright law do in nineteenth and twentieth centuries?
Because registration in nineteenth and twentieth sentries was still expensive, it was also a hassle. The abolishment of formalities promised to save the starving widows and lighten an unnecessary regulatory burden imposed upon creator.
-There were a complaint about creative property in 1908, and it shouldn’t be a second –class of property. Explain?
Then the author talked about how in 1908 people complained about the copyright, when they claimed that there is no reason that creative property should be a second – class form of property. So if you are a carpenter and building tables, it shouldn’t be register in the court. But if you buy a land so you should register it in the court as a second – class property, to make sure there is no body will steal it. So the author thinks that argument is correct, but its impactions are misleading. For the argument in favor of formalities does not depend on creative property being in second-class of property. The argument turns to upon the special problem that creative present. So the law of formalities responds to special physics of creative property, to make sure it efficiently and fairly spared.
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OMAR
Chapter 8 Questions:
1. What did Alex want to pursue?
2. What was his main challenge?
3. Do you think people should pay more attention to clearing rights before cutting and pasting any movie or music clip?
For answers, please visit http://kcribbin.wordpress.com.
Chapter 7 questions for Free Culture
1. What process did Else go through to use The Simpsons in his documentary?
2. Why didn’t Else rely just upon “fair use”?
3. What’s the difference between fair use theory and fair use in practice?
For the answers to these questions, please visit my blog at http://areagan89.wordpress.com/
Free Culture
Chapter Nine
Question 1: Is it feasible to construct archives to hold vast amounts of information?
It is 100% feasible to consider this idea. As Lessig tells us in Chapter 9, technology makes it possible to imagine this type of archive. Every single book published could be held within this archive. The potential of a project like this is something never imagined before, but the dream is quite possible.
Question 2: Can this archive be “built” without costs?
As said by Brewster Kahle, the founder of the Internet Archive, on page 112 the key here is access to all of the information, not price. Kahle’s idea is to make it free, but allow others to sell to access it. He wants there to be some type of competition in gaining the information. In life content that was once sold is now spread through various forms of contact. The internet is free to a certain extent, and information from books that we all once had to pay for is now available at the click of a mouse.
Question 3: With all the information in the world is possible to go back and discover what was forgotten?
Yes. We all forget history. It is the choice and state of mind whether we can go back and discover what was once forgotten. Before the internet this was difficult. Again, even though libraries have been around for some time, they have not always been so accessible. Now with most homes in America having use of the internet things that were once in the past can now be bought again to the present and future. Now the need for a newer database of information is growing because the internet has become somewhat unreliable.
Free Culture
Chapter Nine
Question 1: Is it feasible to construct archives to hold vast amounts of information?
Question 2: Can this archive be “built” without costs?
Question 3: With all the information in the world is possible to go back and discover what was forgotten?
For the answers to these questions, please visit my blog at
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Question 3: With all the information in the world is possible to go back and discover what was forgotten?
Question 2: Can this archive be “built” without costs?
Free Culture
Chapter Nine
Question 1: Is it feasible to construct archives to hold vast amounts of information?
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Free Culture
Chapter Nine
Question 1: Is it feasible to construct archives to hold vast amounts of information?
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For answers, please visit
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Chapter 2 Questions:
1- Is it easy to make photographs? and is it compatible for everyone between the generations?
2- How do the democratic tools give an ordinary people a way to express themselves more easily than any tools could have before?
3- What are the differentiations of the blogs uses around the countries?
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Questionsfor Chapter 2:
1- Is it easy to make photographs? and is it compatible for everyone between the generations?
2- How do the democratic tools give an ordinary people a way to express themselves more easily than any tools could have before?
3- What are the differentiations of the blogs uses around the countries?
http://sarabalila.wordpress.com/
Questions for Ch 4
1- Should radio stations be required to pay the recording artists as it does to the composer?
2- Is it fair for congress to set the compensation amount on Copyright owners?
3- How were pioneers such as fox cable to benefit from treatment in Hollywood?
For seeing brief answers, go to this link
1- Should radio stations be required to pay the recording artists as it does to the composer?
2- Is it fair for congress to set the compensation amount on Copyright owners?
3- How were pioneers such as fox cable to benefit from treatment in Hollywood?
For seeing brief answers, go to this link
Sorry guys I forget to put my link for the Answers in Ch 4
Just too much work to provide you with the brief clear answers.
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Good Luck
Kind Regards
Ahmad Subahe
Check out the answers to these questions on chapter four here:
1. Should composers have the right to their product or allow monopoly?
2. Is it fair for Congress to establish rate for copyright owners?
3. How were pioneers like Fox able to benefit from compliance treatment in Holywood?
Dave Wilson
1- Is it easy to make photographs? and is it compatible for everyone between the generations?
2- How do the democratic tools give an ordinary people a way to express themselves more easily than any tools could have before?
3- What are the differentiations of the blogs uses around the countries?
The web-log or the blogger is a form of communication that has grown dramatically
if want the answer you can found that in may blog……………………….
Free Cultur ” Chapter 10″
1- what is (MPAA)?
2-What is the purposes in this chapter?
3- Dose the regulation of copyright low good? What do you think?
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Here’s the link to Melinda Berry’s Blog with a Summary of Free Culture & Applicable Questions derived in class: http://melindaberry1.wordpress.com/
Free Culture Paper
Here is my (Angela DiGiovanni’s) summary of Free Culture:
Free Culture Summary
Free Culture Summary
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