Thursday, June 30, 2011

Sonni Jackson's Blog

After taking my first few courses here at Full Sail University, I was afraid to use anybody’s work.  Even worst, I was afraid to create my own work in fear that I would be breaking some laws.   The videos on copyright helped calmed those fears considerably.



Random Thoughts About The State of Copyright

Times are changing.  Creativity is changing.  People are changing.  Therefore, copyright laws should also change.  What good is material, if no one can see or use it?  Additionally, the film and music industries need to change and adapt and stop focusing on doing business as usual.

When people are able to remix music, I believe it gives life to the original music and creator. 

I am thankful for Creative Commons.  I learned about the site in one of my earlier classes but I never really took the time to understand and use it.  Creative Commons adds flexibility and gives creators more control as to how their work is copied and distributed.

In high school, I wrote a piece of music and I remember my teacher telling me it sounds like a song he’d heard before.  However, I’d never heard the song or of the author.  With the amount of music and other creatively created art in the world, it stands to reason that innocent creators will create something that is either the same or extremely similar to something that already exists.  How do you overcome this issue while not stifling the creative community?

Response


Sonni, I can relate to your concerns about creating your own work in fear that it could break some laws.  If you get a change read my blog on Is It Really Yours?  However, what interests me more about your blog was in the last paragraph when you spoke on your teacher said the music you wrote sound like something they heard before. I wrote a poem about creativity

 "Sometimes you can be inspired within, sometimes you can be inspired by others, or sometimes by something…"

When you wrote that song I am sure it was inspirational and creative, but music has been repeated for centuries and although you never had that melody before you created just a few notes of that melody that had some similarity sound of what your teacher heard before.  It doesn't mean it was not your own original piece because it was it just may shared one or two notes from someone else who had the same idea.

Jenney Gover's Blog


Jenney’s Blog on Wimba


OH Wimba how I love thee! Thank goodness for archive!

My FAVORITE part was the literature discussion. Why?! Because I needed the most clarification on this (long long story), but this has been a HUGE frustration for me. So I'm SUPER thankful for this clarification FINALLY!

"lit rev is a survey [overview] of a lot of literature..."
"what did the world say about what I want to do?"

Broad spectrum - no list - not research paper
A dialogue that covers the spectrum of what you're researching.

Jen Geiger said during a conversation, "What would Diane Sawyer say about the literature?" which went along with the professor's analogy of a good talk show host!!! Where was this analogy eight months ago?! Super thankful for a fresh viewpoint to this process. Think the curtain is finally pulling away from the window. I can see daylight. Oh wait, those are street lights!

Professor Bustillo said, "hmm I had this question and I'm wondering what all these people said." So does that mean we can state the question in the introduction?

Second portion of very needed information: CBR!

I need to update the site and consistently throughout all pages. Update all pictures and videos. Basically fill in all pages that we have started thus far.

On the plan page I need to add how many participants were added. Update LR references page and the notes with the mind mapping.

Data data data...gotta put the data together and make a few statistics. Did you know that 86% of all statistics are made up on the spot!

Abstract: 120 words or less! Descriptive...Haiku -- initial questions, lit review, methodology, results, conclusion...don't defend, not why i did it, but how.

(insert record scratch here) WHAT?! We are going to apply to present or be published?! I'm wondering who the collective "we" is in the "we weren't getting as big of a payoff as we could get or should get given the amount of work that you guys have already done." Because the "we" if that includes me would mean that my payoff of a raise, job advancement, etc could be sufficient for me and therfore my choice to then go into retirement would be my choice if I chose not to get published. I'm really caught off guard by this even though a peer mentioned it in a conversation last night after class (I watched archive today). In month 1 (and 2) it was stressed that we could if we wanted to, but we wouldn't be forced to publish even though we'd be fully prepared to publish if we so chose. The analogy that has become forefront for this process is "It's all fluid"(always changing) in this Alice in Wonderland world.

I guess I now know what a fish feels like when I'm fishing. Oh this pretty lady is providing me with food, how nice is that?! "Swim little fishies over to my line." *gulp* Oh no! There's a hook! Swim away! Swim away! Nope, I'm snagged.

Response


LOL, I know what you mean…I was at the Wimba session and still I have to check the archive to recapture the class.  Although the Lit Review was well needed for clarification especially about the part on Abstract.  I have no clue how to do that so I pray it will not be a challenge for me.  The second part is my most concern.  While some of the class has the CBR the other portion is working on the AR, which would be me!  I thought I had a good AR blog, but after looking back at it I often wonder should I have done more?  Was it enough data, enough participants, enough video, and etc. those are constant question that run through my head? 

Is It Really Yours?


By GanjaVandal

When I watched the copyright fair rights video it got me to think about when I was working on my undergraduate degree.  My concentrated area was in Electronic Arts. In my typographic class there was a project that was required to do on photographing different font on building in our environment.  That mean it could be graffiti, ancient font off of church building or modern signs it did not matter where we found it as long as it was interesting.  After retrieving that resource, then we were required to duplicate our images and transfer it into one of the programs that we using to draw.  There was twigging to make it our own style, and then we critique the outcome.  I often wondering was that work of art was true our own or did we just take advantage of the original artist who simply did not know their rights and a dead artist who could not speak up for themselves. Which ever the case may be, I personal did not feel I had the right to claim something that I duplicated from another person work.

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Bogus Accusation


Wow! It is amazing how the rich like to blame the little guy for their own failure.  Don't get me wrong stealing is wrong, but to put the whole blame on the little guy is a copout excuse.  I mean the right holders and government did not want to admit they weren't doing so hot probably because of the prices too high like purchasing CD's and DVD'S or even go to the movies they are all too high for an average household budget, so they used piracy theft as an escape goat.  Now since the economy is so mess up the government is changing their story and claiming there are other reasons for the flop, I find that to be amusing.