Essay topic 5

Topic: Creative Commons is both a solution and yet another failure to deal with authorship and copyright on the internet. Discuss and give examples

Background
The communication technological has been developing rapidly, the “print copyright” becoming to “digital copyright”. Literary works, videos, music and software can be downloaded conveniently and free. It is a new challenge to the traditional model of intellectual property protection. To consider this tort act, it will break the copyright of authors when people do noninterference. However, based over care about this problem, it will put a barrier on the way of academic research communicate.

Introduction
In this essay, there will be an introduction of what is Creative Commons (CC), how it works, why it has been sited up then the discussion of the relationship between Creative Commons and the authorship and copyright.

The Creative Commons (CC) was offered by the professor of Stanford University, Lawrence Lessig in 2001. The purpose of Creative Commons is to offer a license which sets on the idea of knowledge sharing and complies with the law to protect the copyright and authorship issues on internet.

There are 6 major licenses and 4 conditions of Creative Commons; authors can depend on their needs to choose the best type to allow others to share their creations. There is a large number of websites suing the CC license to help them to control the recourse sharing when they manage their web. Such as Wikipedia, Flicker, Public Library of science.

According to the famous copyright cases: “Mickey copyright” and “IBM Linux copyright” limited the spreading of resource, the insights realize that the idea “All Rights Reserved” that should be improve; then the ideas “Some Rights Reserved” and “No Rights Reserved” are gone up to the stage. Just like the words of the professor of law, Zhao Xiaoli at Tsinghua University, “In the copyright of the idea ‘All Rights Reserved’, to use it properly is impossible.” Zhao xiaoli 2004.

Moreover, this idea provides a large rang of useful information recourses to the creation. It has made the knowledge which created by one people then share and re-create by others in practice, thus, the Creative Commons license is popular.

It clearly shows that the CC license helps the author to protect their works and make people to share more resources legally and it promotes the community of academic community. However, if the CC is the solution of the authorship and copyright on the internet, we can consider this question which requires thinking about how the CC license works in the practical application and whether has the ability of practicability.

The CC license ensures the author to release some parts of the works copyright, while keeping other parts; people can download and copy the recourses or amend some part legally. Depend on how much rights they would like to grant, the CC licenses offers a system to help authors choose which license to use in the 6 major licenses. When authors get into the CC license official website, there is a quiz area, the author answers three questions; the website will help them to choose the most appropriate license. After deciding which license to use, the problem comes.

Authors need to cut and past a digital-code of CC license which they decide to use into their file, but for many author, it is difficult to write or just past the digital-code for their work. Moreover, the digital-code is not fit for the binary files and difficult to embed into it. In addition, some of the search engines are unable to find those binary flies with CC license. That means that the CC license can not very convenient to be used by every author and it is not so reliable to publics search their recourse needs.

"The law adjusts to the technologies of the time. And as it adjusts, it changes. Ideas which were as solid as rock in one age crumble in another." Lessing 2004

The other problem is that the CC license is not fit for all copyright around the world because different country has its different system of law. The CC license offered which is based on the US law system; therefore, it can not suit for other countries’ law completely, so that the CC license can not be performed.

Even though there is a Creative Commons International project to amend the license to fit into other law system, it is still not enough. At the present time there are just 52 countries sign this license.

If this situation means the other countries which not sign into the CC license are unable to share more recourse on the internet? In fact those countries can still find resources and use them over freedom. The manager of China Creative Commons International Corporation Gao Han said “there is a blind spot in those countries which are not sign in and for the people in blind spot, the free recourse means they can use them without engagement.” Gao Han 2004
Those people can share others works and there is just some local laws to engagement their behavior, it is possible make the internet copyright into a situation of chaos.

Conclusion
The CC license offers a solution for the internet copyright and authorship, it helps authors to protect their rights of works while other people can copy, share and re-create the recourse from the internet legally. However, the CC license also has problems when it works for the authorship and copyright on internet. It seems that the CC license is a really useful way to solve the internet copyright problem. However if people can not use it in a correct way, it will cause big problem to the order of the copyright issues.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io3BrAQl3so

Reference
Creative Commons http://www.creativecommons.org/

Wei, ‘The balance between creative commons and copyright’ (n.d.).7th April 2006 intellectual property of shaan’xi viewed 3rd October , 2009
http://www.snipo.gov.cn/ReadNews.asp?NewsID=2879&BigClassName=%D5%BD%C2%D4%D1%D0%BE%BF&SmallClassName=%B0%CB%B7%BD%CC%B8&SpecialID=0

Lawrence Lessig Wikipedia viewed 3re October 2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig

Alan Wexelblat, September 15, 2008. ‘Disney and the Copyright on Mickey Mouse’ Corante viewed 10th October 2009
http://copyfight.corante.com/archives/2008/09/15/disney_and_the_copyright_on_mickey_mouse.php

Lawrence Lessig Free Culture
http://www.free-culture.cc/freecontent/)

Gao Han, ‘An international effort to Creative Commons’ (n.d.) Renmin University of China law school viewed 5th October 2009
http://www.law.ruc.edu.cn/Article/ShowClass.asp?ClassID=795


Zhao xiaoli, ‘Some Rights Reserved’ Internet Law Newsletter vol 3 Republic Press China pp.3

Ling Jie, P2005 ‘Creative Commons New Concept of Copyright Protection in Digital Age’ People’s Court News vol 199

week 9 lecture summary

This is the last week for Jason to give us the lecture. I was sad, I still remember the “you can use mouse” story happened in his class. He is a really funny guy and he made the lecture more interesting.
On this lecture, Jason showed us the way to use new software; he gives out some steps to help us.
During this year my use of software, I find that almost all software will show out the usage after user install it, it is easier to learner. However the Photoshop is a difficult one, I can not use it very well, and some times I do know what I can do when I create my work.

the arts

We are been asked to add some form of arts which create by me
First one is a picture of a little boy. I photograph it when we had a BBQ recently. And I didn’t plan it, he just walk into my picture when I take a picture


The second one is a picture I take when I went to a concert. The fans waved the blue flashes in the concert; the blue flashes mean that idol group’s relationship with their fans. We love that blue ocean. When I came back I use Photoshop to edit it

The third one is a digital magazine. It is not my own creation, I did it with my friend, for celebrate the birthday of a man who we love very much. Actually, I just did a few works, but my ID is still there, it makes me so proud.

week 8 task

E-PETITIONS

I singed the bus service one because it is about my daily life.
E-PETITIONS CONFIRMATION

Thank you Ms CHEN
Your name has been added to the Bus service extension into Freshwater Valley (Redlynch), Cairns E-Petition as specified below.

Please print this page if you require confirmation.

Click here to return to E-Petitions


TO: The Honourable the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland
Queensland residents draws to the attention of the House the lack of public bus services in the rapidly growing residential community of the Freshwater Valley (Redlynch), Cairns.

Your petitioners therefore request the House to extend the Sunbus service contract to include the Freshwater Valley (Redlynch).
https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/view/EPetitions_qld/Confirmation.aspx?PetNum=1315&lIndex=-1




Respond to a professional blogger at a major news site
In the ABC news I find the blog of Rick Klein
The Score: Cost estimate is huge boost -- and here comes the left, again

I responded to the blog under the name Tao
I am not Australian but I still care about it, and I hope there's some to explain it.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/10/the-score-cost-estimate-is-huge-boost-and-here-comes-the-left-again.html

What is Barak Obama up to today?
Barack Obama considers Afghanistan strategy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLE1WjM-Gts

Find out who your local, state and federal representatives are:
I am an international student so I do not have state and federal representatives. And I can just find the website of my local government
http://www.luzhou.gov.cn/zhengwu/index.html
Mail address http://mail.luzhou.cn/login.php
Telephone number: Tel:+86-(0)830-6111017 fax:+86-(0)830-6111018

What do you think of the Australian Government's plans to censor the internet?
I think it is a good thing to censor the internet, because there are more and more eroticism and violence on the internet. For protect the health of children and teenagers. to censor the internet is a wise action. But I don’t hope it becomes too over like China. In China there are many popular websites are been blocked by government, such as facebook; youtube; bloger; myspace etc.

week 8 lecture summary

The lecture this week is talk about the Political Possibilities. I do not like political topic, it is boring and difficult to understand, especially for the international student like me.
First we talk about the defining democracy, and the eDemocracy, the internet's intervention in and contribution to real world politics that exists predominantly off the internet.
Then we talk about the gaps in mass media, speech and censorship, these things are totally different with China because of the different political system.

week 7 task

One of the best words for me is FREE, I love people tell me “it is free”. There are much freeware been shares by lot of people, such as Firefox; MSN. There is a most popular freeware in China; it is chatting software, it is much more popular than MSN in China, in the year 2004 there are more than 23 million accounts and it increased three hundreds thousand accounts per day.
It can chat with one person and chat with a group
One person

Group


It not just a chatting software, it also can let people talk face to face though the camera; send documents, listening music, play online games; blogs and so on. It is become the most important social life tool to every Chinese especially young people. It is easy to use; interesting; reliable; steady and all these are free, the only weak is it has very few overseas users.

week 7 lecture summary

The lecture this week was given by Jason, he talked about the download and use of freeware. There are so many freeware in our daily PC use, he give us some useful website to down load this software. This lecture reminds me the freeware use in China. In China we also have so many freeware download website and a variety of software. Actually, in China you just need by an empty PC and all software you need you can download them for free.

In this lecture Jason also talk about windows and Mac, I like windows more because some interesting software can not use on Mac.

week 7 task

the ireport




This noon (23rd 09 2009)10:30 after the lecture, I walked out the building, found the sky and the air turns to yellow. When I walk though the campus, the sky became more and more dark, and the wind was strong. Walking in the wind, eyes and throat felt uncomfortable. Inside the room we can hear the sound of strong wind and still small the dust. Everything covered with dust, a dusty day.
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-333278

what I feel difficut is the "upload" after I upload it, I still can not see it ```

week 6 lecture summary

This lecture we talk about the consumption & production.
There are big screen and small screen, big screen include cinema which we share with public; TV which share with family and the PC which is personal one. As an international student here, I do not use TV too much, PC is my everyday need.

The small screen includes personal media players and mobile phone. I have personal media player and mobile phone but I do not like iphone and ipods actually, I think they have nice look and enough function but they are not so convenient sometimes and a little expensive for those person who does not have job just like me.

week 6 task

The first one -- my vedio



http://www.sketchcast.com/view/weCJhNG

Then my maps


View Larger Map


View Larger Map

Me on the internet


I do not think this is the actually right becouse there are more than billion people in china called this name, and most of them are male!!

week 5 task

The internet delivered short film
We are asked to post 3 short films on our blog.

First one is commercial of Chinese central TV （1：00）
The reason I choose this film is because this is a commercial of Chinese central TV, it is full of Chinese characteristics. The meaning of this short film is from noting to anything and from anything to nothing; it used the ink which is the basic of Chinese picture to farmed different object.

CCTV Ink TV Commercial - Directed by Niko Tziopanos from Troublemakers.tv on Vimeo.

http://vimeo.com/6794856

The second one is “the world builder"(09:14)
This is a 3D world which built by Bruce Branit. This film coast 2 years, it shooed by 1 day, and used more than 600 days on the Post-Production. People said this magical world is built for a woman who he loves.

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNzU3OTUzNDA=.html

The last one is “repaly”.(8:45)
This animation tells a story of a boy with a tape which records the beautiful environment in the past time.
It shows people if we do not protect our environment, in the future, people can just heard the voice of birds and river in the tape.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-cFHeoXAw8

the Internet timeline and History of Computing timelines

1642 - At 19 French inventor Beliase Pascal invented the first mechanical calculator. The calculator was able to add and subtract.
1674 - Gottfried Leibniz of Germany designs a machine able multiply and divide.
1834 - Charles Babbage invented a mechanical computer, called a "difference engine". The difference engine could calculate and print the calculations. However this machine or the later "analytical engine" were not built in his lifetime. The construction of the difference engine was in London in the 1900s.
1835 - Samuel Morse invented the Morse Code
1837 - William Cook and Charles Wheatstone invented the telegraph
1855 - G. Schnetz creates a calculating engine which was displayed in a Paris Exhibition
1876 - Alexander Bell invents the first telephone
1889 - Herman Hollerith invented a tabulating machine.
1896 - Herman Holleritih funds a company (Tabulating Machine Company) which later becomes IBM
1911 - TMC is changed to IBM (International Business Machines)
1926 - The first television is invented by John Logie Baird
1936 1936- First freely programmable computer.
1937 - Alan Turing develops the theoretical computing machine concept
1942- John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry ABC Computer Who was first in the computing biz is not always as easy as ABC
1946-John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly
ENIAC 1 Computer 20,000 vacuum tubes later...
1949-50 - Printed electronic circuits are invented
1950 - Big computers
1953 - IBM starts building big computers
1954 - Fortran programming language
1960 - first email programme called mailbox
1964 - IBM first word processor
1965 - first minicomputer
1971 - Microprocessor
1972 - pocket calculator, email between two machines
1975 - portable computer
1984 - Apple Macintosh introduces the mouse and window interface, CD-ROM and cyberspace
1985- Microsoft Windows Microsoft begins the friendly war with Apple.
1986 - the internet takes shape
early 1900's - Wired networks number over 7,500 worldwide, reaching people in more than 75 countries
1995 - There are 30 to 40 million Internet users in the world

Week 4 lecture summary

Big screen to small screen
On this lecture we talked about the time line of the screen scaling development.
1895 - Birth of cinema
1906 – First feature length narrative film
1927 – “Talkies”, “The Jazz singer”.
1929 – First all colour film
1933 – First drive-in Cinema/Theatre
1937 – First all colour, all singing animated film “Snow White”
1939 – First TV
1952 – Birth of 3D
1955 – Hollywood sells their movies to TV stations
1956 – First VCR/VTR
1959 – Percept vision
1963 – Birth of multiplex theatre
1967-69 – Portapax
1970 – IMAX
1972 – Pay TV
1985 – First blockbuster video store opened
1986 – First CGI animated short film mad. Luxo Jr. (Pixar)
1995 – Toy Story (Pixar)
1997 – DVD video “Troops”
2002 – BMW – “The Driver”

Also we watched a funny video “Troops”

The film review

The review of “Rachel getting married”

I saw many films during the holiday, the film ‘Rachel getting married’ gave me the deep impression. The princess Anne becomes a drug addicts!



The ‘Who’: the main person in this whole movie is ‘Kym’, the sister of bride Rachel. The trouble makers who fetch out the family contradiction which was been hide before.


The ‘What’: Kym goes back home from detoxification center when her sister Rachel’s wedding coming. Casually she shows the old hidden family contradiction out by her innocent words.


The ‘Where’: An old house at Kym’s hometown she left there for a long time. And for many reason she don’t want go back.

The ‘When’: After Kym left home 10 years, her sister Rachel will get married.
The ‘Why’: When Kym comes home she feels the care from her family, but care without trust, when she listen others’ blessing she feel sham

The ‘How’: at the wedding, everybody plan to have happy countryside weekend with yummy food, music, but Kym’s black humor style speech broke everything, even Rachel’s wedding.

week 3 task

VLS: WS Very LS/wide shot
In the WS, the subject takes up the full frame. The feet will be almost at the bottom of frame, and the head almost at the top. The small amount of room above and below the subject can be thought of as safety room - you don't want to be cutting the top of the head off.
http://images.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://www.video-animation.com/images/bcu.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.video-animation.com/vidcam_06.shtml&usg=__KdCt08TB4LAeXm5l5501M_fi5mA=&h=220&w=300&sz=3&hl=en&start=10&sig2=qQ5P-De0Rk-tIaiR4_EFoQ&um=1&tbnid=DwoRBoJQ87Ru6M:&tbnh=85&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbig%2Bclose%2Bup%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG%26um%3D1&ei=HkGRSoi7HJOIkQW45t27Cg
LS: long shot
The point of this shot is to show the subject's surroundings. The EWS is often used as an "establishing shot" - the first shot of a new scene, designed to show the audience where the action is taking place.

MLS: medium LS
MLS Is adjusted for more action or motion in the frame. Actors can walk about; props can be seen in full.
http://images.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZTVIdAmpFiY/SfZ25otf4PI/AAAAAAAAB-w/k17ErjwJ7HA/s400/YoungFrankensteinCU.jpg&imgrefurl=http://simuli.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html&usg=__R5pZHSgVkdkyJOBLOFTSwku1eUM=&h=240&w=320&sz=15&hl=en&start=9&sig2=FfwXH1TzvZMhw8NCXm4NLA&um=1&tbnid=TFb7O2aKxHMUlM:&tbnh=89&tbnw=118&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmidium%2Blong%2Bshot%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG%26um%3D1&ei=gkWRSrGxHI2VkAWE6ty7Cg
MS: mid shot
The MS shows some part of the subject in more detail, whilst still showing enough for the audience to feel as if they were looking at the whole subject. In fact, this is an approximation of how you would see a person "in the flesh" if you were having a casual conversation. You wouldn't be paying any attention to their lower body, so that part of the picture is unnecessary

MCU: medium CU
It Includes the whole upper carriage like a traditional bust. The way someone holds their shoulders and back conveys a lot of information about their character. An MCU is far enough away to give the subject a respectable amount of space, but close enough to see their face.
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CU: Close Up
should be significantly tighter than the MCU, typically including the collar, but not much of the shoulders. The emphasis here should be on the facial expression, not on body movement. Because the CU is all about the subject's face, it encapsulates their identify, which is why it's the perfect shot to answer who.
http://images.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://www.kenstone3.net/fcp_homepage/images_language_of_film/ECU_Dav.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/language_of_film.html&usg=__WpNpmDAgi7sQoDJZxh_Vd6zXePk=&h=276&w=622&sz=33&hl=en&start=4&sig2=-nhMnlks5qft7Bj0Lsy6MQ&um=1&tbnid=4j5_8SnlTdD4-M:&tbnh=60&tbnw=136&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbig%2Bclose%2Bup%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG%26um%3D1&ei=sUiRStmXKNSWkQXUqby7Cg

BCU: Big CU
ECU：Extreme CU
is so close that only part of the actor's face is visible. This angle can be used very powerfully at highly emotional moments. Save the extreme close-up for such emotional moments.

week 2 lectuer summary

A Short History of Computing and the Internet

As the title said, this lecture introduced the history of the computing and internet.
Even we use computer and internet everyday, but before the lecture, I still have no idea about the notion of computer, the notion of internet and the notion of the relations between computer and internet.
There is a saying in the lecture ‘It is important to understand that the internet is not the same thing as the web.’ Give me a deep impression. When I started use the computer search the internet, I deem that ‘web=internet, internet=web’. Form this lecture I realize that web just a little part of internet!!

week 2 task

Technological convergence
'Technological convergence is the trend of technologies to merge into new technologies that bring together a myriad of media. While historically, technology handled one medium or accomplished one or two tasks, through technological convergence, devices are now able to present and interact with a wide array of media.'
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-technological-convergence.htm

communication technologies：
Visual telephone

DOCOMO4G


Others:
PSP

ipod touch

ipod (a music apple ^^ the pictrue edit)



The ads of NTT-DOCOMO
Technological convergence：'talk through talk'


38 Cute Animals, 1 Cool Screen, 8 Different Uses

I am an idiot

I am an idiot I am an idiot I am an idiotiot I am an idiotiot T_T

How can I do not know what I need to do in the class``````

Nobody tell me but nobody have to tell me

I'll finish them in these few days```

hope they can works```

go go fighting !!!

week 4 Tutorial Task

1. What is the weight of the world's biggest pumpkin? How long did it take to grow?

The weight is 1689 pond













http://pumpkinnook.com/giants/giantpumpkins.htm
2. What is the best way (quickest, most reliable) to contact Lilly Allen?
The best way is visit her home page http://www.lilyallenmusic.com/lily/


3. What is the length of a giraffe's tongue?
The length of a giraffe's tongue is 53cm
http://www.zoo.com.sg/spotlight/african_giraffe.htm


4. How would you define the word 'glycomics'? In your own words, what does it really mean ? What does the term 'seagull manager' refer to?
The word‘glycomics' is a new word, refers a new study of the given cell type or organism' s glycan structures.
http://www.reference.com/browse/Glycomics

5. What was David Cronenberg's first feature film? Which of his films Had 'Blondie' in it?
David Cronenberg's first feature film is shivers.
'Blondie' (Debbie Harry blondie fame) starred in "Videodrome"
http://therumpus.net/2009/07/david-cronenbergs-first-feature-film/

6. When was the original 'Hacker's Manifesto' written?
The Mentor written on on January 8, 1986
http://www.technozen.com/manifesto.htm

7. Why do phone numbers in Hollywood films start with '555'?
555 is low fill
http://www.telephonecollecting.org/code.htm
8. What is the cheapest form of travel from the Gold Coast to Sydney?
By plane
http://www.travel.com.au/everest/index.cgi

9. What song was top of the Australian Pop Charts this week in 1965?
The song Funny Face Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs -(1965 )
http://poparchives.com.au/home.
10. Which Brisbane band includes Stephen Stockwell on keyboards and vocals?
punk band, the Black Assassins
http://web.revolutionrock.com.au/oral-hist/index.php?id=24

B of communication is good``` no Chinese classmates here T_T. I can not speak English will. Everybody in the class are friendly but I still ( >_< ~) <------- my face

How much I hope I can have a high level English`` so that I can talk to others, I like to talk with others but````

And I find it's hard for me to use English to post a blog ``` can not remember the words spelling, without translate tool```

Help~~T_T

So~ that is my first English blog, an Asian style blog ~

Anyways, I am so happy to meet you guys here~