1. In the Bruce Willis article, the main conflict arises because we typically think of physical assets under the “First Sale Doctrine” whereby we retain the right to “sell, display, or otherwise dispose of that particular copy.” Digital Content, on the other hand, is subject to “End User License Agreements” (EULAs) which specify that only the first purchaser may enjoy access to the copy and rights are not transferable.
Using at least one ethical theory, do you think it is morally defensible that Bruce Willis and others cannot transfer the ownership of digital assets to their children, but they can transfer physical assets such as a house?
1. I think the theory of utilitarianism is the best morally defensible that Bruce Willis and others
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However, based on 1854. Copyright Infringement - the first sale principle has showed that Bruce Willis and others cannot transfer the ownership of digital assets to their children but physical assets. Because physical assets are not a matter of society utility. Additionally, the first sale principle provides right to a copyright holder to lend, sell, give away, and destroy the copyrighted item. Since the song owners has sold the copyright to the Apple, Apple has right to end user license privilege.
2. In the articles on Social Media and Youtube, the major issue surrounds ownership rights to the content that a person uploads to social media sites. Do you think that people should retain ownership rights to content uploaded to such sites? Use at least one assigned reading to support your
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According to the text book, “the internet has been heralded as a means to ensure equitable access to information and democratic ideas.” (Ciulla, Martin, & Solomon, 2017) So far, those sites are not equitable and democratic.
I think that people should retain full ownership right to content uploaded to those sites. Those sites are only video sharing websites. Those sites do not create the videos. Those videos are created and shared by the content creators. One of those sites – YouTube has made over hundred thousand dollars by adverting on their front page. YouTube has stated in its terms of service that the content creators “retains all ownership rights to the content”.
This means that all content creators have the ownership rights, which are the rights to upload and removed videos as their will. However, when the content creators have removed the videos from YouTube, those videos still save and remain on its server as unknown time. Besides, it is actually a way for YouTube to avoid the liability for all contents.
Importantly, YouTube is just a host for people to upload and store their videos. YouTube should not have right to keep their video on its serve. For example, I lend out an empty house. The renters have brought their furniture when they move in. Although their furniture is in my house, this does not mean I own their
As an audience member I am sympathetic. This is a subject of which I had some prior knowledge on before watching the video and had already formulated my opinion. I believe the author, Lawrence Lessig, is trying to reach a neutral audience. After showing multiple videos in which different types of creative expression are shown, Lessig branches off into the topic of copyright laws. He introduces this topic as something new when he states, “So much is not new, there is something that is new.” This implies that the audience would not already be aware of the type of occurrences being discussed and therefor they would not have already formed an opinion making them neutral.
For my project, I chose to reconstruct my rhetorical analysis essay in the form of a commercial or public service announcement posted to YouTube. My rhetorical analysis essay analyzed David Foster Wallace’s “Consider the Lobster” which concerned the morality of cooking and utilizing lobsters for food. Because of this, I decided to turn my analysis into a video advocating for an end to the slaughter and consumption of lobsters. Video is a common form of media for this type of advocacy, since it is easily accessible to people and doesn’t require the audience to put much effort into consuming the information. I chose to upload this video to YouTube since it is one of the most common places on the internet to share videos and has a large user base. Posting the video
The ethical theory of utilitarianism has one basis, one must chose the action that will contribute to the greatest good; the greatest good for the greatest number. In any instance one may ask, which action will make the most people happy and how long? As a method
Virtue theory and utilitarian theory are two of the principal ethical theories. Though each theory deserves the general respect they have gathered, both are under constant attack from objection and scrutiny.
“Google Apologizes to Ad Clients for YouTube Content Fiasco.” CBS News.com, 20 March 2017, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-apologizes-to-ad-clients-for-youtube-content-fiasco/. In this article from CBS, they discussed how ads had been placed in some YouTubers inappropriate videos and Google, which is the owner of YouTube, apologized for these incidents. Google apologized to the Britain government whose ads appeared in content that contained homophobic and anti-semitic messages.
Video is one of the most compelling forms of communication of this time. Over the course of the past few years, the gradual but sure drift from analog to digital in video technology has not only improved the abilities of visual communication media to distribute data, but has also improved their abilities to manipulate the data that they distribute. Digital video technology has advanced to the extent that still image manipulation has been usurped by more powerful technological developments that allow elements of a video image to be manipulated in real-time. That is, objects or persons in a video image can be edited out or edited in while the image is in broadcast without the slightest glitch to suggest that some change has occurred; everything would look “real.” The advantages that this technology opens for visual media are extensive. Similar to some technologies, however, it opens up an exploitive edge. Pixels are plastic (can be changed) and using them to distort or manipulate reality is an opportunity open to all users of video manipulation tools. The ethics of such uses and the social considerations of how copyright laws would deal with a technology which manipulates digital works of authorship, works to which copyright automatically attaches, are issues worth considering. This paper explores the possible and actual, reputable and less reputable uses of this technology in an attempt to stimulate discussions about how “well-intended” technologies can be utilized by users in unethical and harmful ways. The paper also attempts to see where possible infringements of copyright’s fair use doctrine has occurred or could possibly occur through use of this technology.
“Copyright is a fundamental right of ownership and protection common to all of the arts” (O’Hara & Beard, 2006, p. 8). “It is a form of intellectual Property (IP)” and it gives the owner exclusive rights to the copyright (O’Hara & Beard, 2006, p. 11).
Even though many companies usually work hard to implement effective search engine optimization (SEO) strategies, they usually consider video marketing and video SEO as a secondary venture. As a result, most businesses either ignore or give very little marketing resources to the internet’s second biggest search engine, YouTube. With the upsurge in video consumption across all devices, however, it is important and prudent that all companies make video content and marketing an integral
...entertainment industry is saying that intellectual property is just as real as physical property. The digital age faces a true balancing act a digital dilemma if you will- the right to freedom of expression while protecting intellectual property.
Now with both of these normative ethical theories in mind, what will be presented in this paper is how does this portray to the movie, The Dark Knight. So before watching this movie, it has been decided that a thesis statement must be created. The thesis will be that the Dark Knight also known as Batman is a Utilitarian hero. Not seeing this movie before, it is unaware of what ethical theory category the Dark Knight will fall under. Therefore it will be a surprise either way with what kind of results that will be
In its simplest terms, copyright is the U.S. government’s way of protecting the rights of anyone creating an original work, such as a play, song, poem, book, or artwork. Only the work’s original author or creator can make copies, distribute, sell, perform or adapt that work. Originally passed into law 35 years ago, the Copyright Act of 1976 has undergone many changes in the wake of advancing technology, including such changes as categorizing any work on the Internet as “published” (Copyright Act of 1976). Of
The Internet has actually helped and hurt the ethical issue of copyright infringement. It has become more difficult to plagiarize or steal information that comes from books, newspapers, journals, etc. that are for scholastic purposes, due to sites like turnitin.com and Safe Assign. These have become tools that help teachers, professors, and even students prevent copyright infringement and plagiarism. The Internet has hurt the act of copyright infringement, however, by making it a lot easier to have access to information. This easy access to information gives people millions of articles, books, newspapers, journals, etc. to steal information from. It has become very simple to type a subject into Google, click on the link, and cut and paste information from their website. Many students are being taught the correct way to give credit to a source author and avoid copyright infringement. The Internet is actually helping many of the youth in America, because they are learning the right way to incorporate cited sources through citation machines. This can also be seen as a curse, however, because many people in other countr...
It has been decided to provide with big incentives to news publishers to entice them to upload the service directly. New publishers have full control over youtube videos. Publishers also have control over ads that are loaded, sales right and revenue share.
In the new world where technology is everything, it is very essential to know how to edit and upload a video on to YouTube. Almost everybody has a special video that they would love to share with the world. Whether it is comical, sad, or educational, YouTube will allow you to share your video worldwide, and editing your video will make it very enjoyable. In this directive process you will learn how to turn your video into a masterpiece.