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
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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 The central message of this text is that increasingly, outdated copyright laws are being manipulated and put to use in a ludicrous manner.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
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;
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
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
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
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
they're making the transition to college and maybe help them feel more confident to participate in social events. From being an RA, I hope to gain some experience when it comes to leadership and also some experience with planning events and being creative. Skills that I would bring to the job would be my sensitivity and experience with
Critical Thinking Critical thinking can be defined in a numerous ways, but all the definitions agree that critical thinking is definitely thinking about thinking. Webster’s dictionary defines it as the mental process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information to reach an answer or conclusion. It is important to understand critical thinking as well as be able to think critically when managing a business. Being able to think critically
Year 12 Essay Creative It was a typical Friday night job, thirteen young teenagers wanting to head out to the city. I received a page to my taxi referring me to an address 127 Croft Rise Eltham, I quickly checked up the address and before I knew it I was in front of the house with thirteen guys giving me directions to where they wanted me to take them in the city. Luckily the city was quiet compared to most Friday nights in Melbourne. The guys directed me to chapel St South Yarra to a club called
do, what good would come of it? In an essay in her collection Colors of a Different Horse, Wendy Bishop says that composition teachers do indeed ìneed to be crossing the line between composition and creative writing far more often that we doî (Bishop 181). Bishop herself has taught both creative writing and composition, and has done both by entering the situation in the mindset of the other. She readily admits that she writes poetry (and not composition), yet she ìwas formally trained to teach
The pounding in my head is so familiar; I barely notice the effect of last night’s scotch. What isn’t familiar is the aroma of coffee. I open one eye, in case there is a body lying next to me. The bed is empty, but the bedside table shows proof of another existence; a half smoked cigarette is slowly disappearing in an ashtray. Oh Jesus, what did I get up to last night? I hate awkward morning after conversations. I drape on my clothes from yesterday, and hurry to make a quick exit. I can hear her
Creative Art Therapy: Creative art therapy is a technique that implements theory of three major schools of thought: PSYCHODYNAMIC HUMANISTIC BEHAVIORISM „Y Uses: Therapists use this implementation of theory and introduce this technique to the client at the appropriate time to facilitate creativity, personal growth, and therapeutic change. PSYCHDYNAMIC Creative art therapy can be used as a medium to capture hidden impulses, and emotions. This technique also helps to explore unconscious
The Death of Creative Power in Sonnet 73 Most of the 127 sonnets Shakespeare wrote to one of his close male friends are united by the theme of the overwhelming, destructive power of time, and the counterbalancing power of love and poetry to create and preserve beauty. Sonnet 73 is no different, but it does present an intriguing twist on this theme. Most of these sonnets address the youth and beauty of his male friend, as well as poetry's power to immortalize them, but number 73 addresses the author's
Creative Investigation Creativity is fundamental aspect of every designer, to see thing in a new and unusual way, finding unique solution for problems. It is also a gift of human being, which machine or computer cannot reproduced. However, the term 'creativity' has not been clearly defined yet. This essay discusses about the creative method, techniques and idea generation of a designer, Jonathan Ive, who is the principle designer of the iMac, iPod, and iPhone. Jonathan Ive was born in February
Creative Management gives creative ideas of how a manger should present himself and how to approach different situations. Creative Management written by Shiegru Kobanashi, focuses mainly on the importance of teamwork, and on group management. How can we transform our present methods of production, under which we become slaves to machines, and regulations for the temporary increase in productivity, into one in which we are the masters of our work? How can we establish a system, which will make people