a) Cite your selection in MLA style. Lessig, Lawrence. "Do Copyright Laws Stifle Creativity?" Online video clip. YouTube. YouTube, 12 Mar. 2009. Web. 11 Feb. 2014. b) What is the central message of this text? Please explain it 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 The central message of this text is that increasingly, outdated copyright laws are being manipulated and put to use in a ludicrous manner.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)
In The Republic, Plato uses many different aspects in Books II, III, and X including: art, literature, and music. These aspects play a huge part in the building of the “ideal city”. Plato includes what can and cannot be used and what is good and what is bad for the city. While building the city, everything is broken down and analyzed by Plato. Art as an imitation of real things, three types of imitation, the types of literature, art, and music allowed and not allowed in the city, and the impact of
You’ve perfected the art of writing engaging copy, full of interesting tidbits and sharable composition for your blog or website. However, you still aren’t getting the shares and/or leads you were hoping to get as a result of your fabulous content. You likely wonder what you are doing wrong. The answer could be as simple as the title or headline you are using. That’s right; simply choosing the wrong title can derail even the best content. Statistics reveal that eight out of ten people will read a
“Software piracy is the unauthorized copying or distribution of copyrighted software. This can be done by copying, downloading, sharing, selling, or installing multiple copies onto personal or work computers.” (What is Software Piracy?) The whole idea behind software piracy is that you are purchasing a, normally, single license copy to use that company’s product on your computer. You are not just purchasing the software itself, which tends to make some people not realize that some of their actions
with children and young people. It is important that children grow up to be good adults and therefore they have to learn from a young age how to behave in public. As a teacher it is important to be a role model to the children. Those children see you every day for a couple of hours and they see what you are doing. Therefore it is important to behave correctly. The children see everything you are doing and are likely to copy you. The strength of this is, that the children can see where they would like
Humans are always learning new things every day of their lives, whether they are learning how to improve themselves or how the world around them works. They learn what is good and what is bad, what behaviors help increase their chance of survival, and what behaviors help get themselves a certain reward. Whether that reward is something vital to their existence or just brings some form of pleasure, humans will learn or teach others how to achieve that goal. Humans also teach each other what are
John Knoll once stated that; “Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it.” This quote can be much related overall to the idea of ethics, when presented with something of use in a situation, a person can either make a good ethical decision or bad ethical decision. The ethical decision making process is frequently involved with most situations in life.However every person weighs their own ethical decisions in a different way. Imagine for a moment that everyone
media always embellish the violent means to be a cool way to solve a problem. As time gone on, when they are put in bind in their social life, they will do the violence way to solve their problem. The second effect is imitation. Sometime people will copy the plots of what they like in media to make it happen. The third effect cause people having wrong perception of the world. Overmuch, media violence cause people believe violence is everywhere and lead them to do violent behaviors. Now, media is needful
student has felt this last-minute rush to get everything completed in time, but this can be a death trap. This paper will discuss why plagiarism is bad and why academic honesty is important. What is Plagiarism? Most students would say that plagiarism is when you copy another person’s work and even use their work as their own. But using terms like “copy” is a way of disguising the seriousness of the issue. To plagiarize means to steal and pass off others ideas as your own, to present a new and original
Reflection The impact of Internet on science and technology has benefits and consequences. At first, I didn’t know that the Internet had bad consequences, especially when it cam to science and technology. However, because of the Internet there have been studies that proclaim that the Internet is bad for us but the benefits outweigh the awful problems. The “awful problems” consist of memory loss, concentration problems, and shortening of attention span. People reported that they lost the ability
decision. First, I will define cloning, and tell you the process of cloning. Then, I will touch base on cloning animals cloning and the bad effects of it .Lastly, I will explain the some different religious view on cloning and what my personal opinion is on cloning. Although people think cloning is just a copy, cloning is actually more complexed than just a copy, but in my personal opinion I am against cloning. The definition of cloning on google.com is “propagate (an organism or cell) as a clone”
how creativity and originality is under threat because students prefer to copy content off the internet without acknowledging original sources. The article raises some valid points but glosses over the fact that nothing is ever original: every new idea or thought is inspired by or an improvement over an old idea or thought. In this article Gabriel asserts that in this day and age a student can go to any website and just copy and paste what they need, but when they do not document the source they have
Buying a Car with Bad Credit: What You Need to Know Bad credit is considered to be a credit score under 630. Many Americans struggle with bad credit for a variety of reasons. This can have a definite stigma on you when you are trying to buy a car. However, there are options available for people with bad credit to finance a car. These are tips you should keep in mind when you want to buy a new car but you have bad credit. Check Your Credit If you have bad credit, you should start your journey toward
Life of an influential person. J.K Rowling is a good writer. She is one of the most affluence a famous authors around the world. Joanne Rowling was born in Yate, the United Kingdom, on July 31st, 1965. She likes to be called Jo. Her parents, Peter James Rowling and Ana Rowling, had two daughters: Joanne and Dianne. Joanne had two friends, and their last name was Potter. After she knew them, she liked that last name so much, and for that reason, she used it for Harry years later. She studied at Weyden
For years, society has been interested in celebrities to the extent that some are obsessed. Collin Palmer, a high school sophomore, expressed his opinions on celebrities and their so-called bad influences on us. Some of Palmer’s points are agreeable, like how fans of celebrities don’t want to copy their bad behavior and how the gossip gives something to talk about with others, but others are not agreeable, like how being obsessed with celebrities are a healthy escape from reality. Interest in celebrities
technology is such a dominant part of life these days many schools are starting to join in. More and more schools are starting to buy laptops, iPads, and other electronic devices for their students. Some educators believe that computer access in school is a good thing; others believe that they may interfere with the learning process. There are pros and cons to computer access in school. While I go to a school that provides macs for the students, which in many ways is beneficial for me, I believe that it does
into more than just the facts. The goal of the media is not just to inform us but to entertain. This new media style is known as "Infotainment". The media's goals are ratings based. They use shows like Jerry Springer, Entertainment Tonight, and Hard Copy to bring in these ratings. The media of today has grown into a profit-based industry that tries to entertain us with the news and with tabloid television shows. In the late 1980s and early 1990s the three big television stations, of ABC, CBS, and
map under his door leading to the enchanted island. When the young men went to the guy’s house he found him in a pool of blood, dead from suicide. Before the young man left for the island, he did make a copy of the map and left it to a couple of guys he had met while in Thailand. (This copy would eventually lead to his downfall.) On his journey to this island, he had to take a plane, a private boat, and lastly to get to the actual island he had to swim around 2 kilometers. Once he arrived at
effortlessly be copied and distributed thanks to invent of computers, Internet, and (lately), cheap data storage devices. Adobe Corporation’s eBook was meant to fix that problem for the copyright owners, while letting the readers keep their rights to their copy of the book. A book translated into eBook format would contain various permissions in it, preventing the user from being able to share the book with anyone else (by tying the eBook’s decryption key to the user’s computer). Additionally, the distributor
effect one’s athleticism. We all have two copies of each gene, one from each of our parents. If one of the copies are bad, for example, in carrying oxygen in the blood, that person will probably struggle more with running and other aerobic activities. Some “sports genes” that have been discovered are ATCN-3 which provides high-velocity movement in people, and ACE which controls the blood flow through the circulatory system. Most great athletes have two good copies of those genes. Some national team coaches