Let's catch up the missing blogging!! So...for last week, it's about copyright!
Have you ever noticed the mark of copyright in some productions?! As it is shown above on right side of the title, little letter of c,that is the symbol mark of copyright! I actually never pay attention to that mark seriousely before but yes, i could find it on DVD, Guinness bear and...etc.
Copyright is the legal right which giving to the authour to publish, broadcast, perform it etc., and other people must ask their permission to use it or any part of it. This definition is based on a dictionary. Also it gives exclusive rights only to the author to make profit from them.
Copyright infrigement is deserved when people violate the copyrighted works by copying arts, music, books and stuff, performing them in public, etc. In this case, downloading music online is infrigement?? Using the copyrighted works on my blog?? It depends on how and what we used it for. So now i moves on to the term fair use, which it was new term for me.
Fair use is the concept that the United States copyright law accepts some exception of copyright infrigement. There are four factors that determines whether it is fair use or not.I listed them down following.
1.the nature and objects of selections made
2.the nature of the copyrighted work
3.the quantity and value of the materials used
4.the degree in which the use may prejudice the sale or the diminish the profits or supersede the objects of the original work
In this sensem if downloading music into the MP3 player for myself, it is hardly understood as infringement. But if you burn it into CD-ROM, it can be copyright infringement because it becomes productive. Using the copyrighted sorce on my blog also be able to apply to the concept of fair use, as long as my blog is not considered as commercial purpose.
We tends to ignore the copyright becuse of availability of downlodaing online, and an improvement of technology. It is good opportunity to review copyright for the future.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Reality and virtualreality
Last Tuesday's lecture was about gamer. I know very much about gamer because i have one 'guy' who is actually crazy about WOW. He spends most of the day playing WOW online. I guess his average playing hours may be around 7 hrs per day at least. It's unbelievable, isn't it!
He is doing quite well out of its endless game wow online, but in real life...
People has more chance to access virtual spaces. The popularlization of the virtual space brings the question of the concept between virtual and reality. It is quite hard to see the things as real or virtual as virtual space merges into real life. Online activity through the internet can structure the virtual community like cybersociety providing with new identity of yourself without physical contact. Virtual community should never be confused with real community.
By the way, I am interesting in 'virtual reality', that is the space where physical body can interact with virtual spaces. It is known that virtual reality is potential space for developing and innovating real life. For example, simulation is one. There are many types of simulation such as interactive simulation, medical simulation like therapeutic and diagnostic, and education and training simulations. These simulations are developed to provide a form of practice.
I watched some video of virtual reality on you tube, how they move, how devices move... it's very interesting! (its better put these videos if i know how to do..) I wanna try one! Their minds are in different world while they are accessing the virtual spaces although their physical body is in reality. I think it is contradictory that the virtual reality has to do with both virtual space and reality to play at real life. I believe that virtual reality can not perform physical reality perfectly with no nualce between them. So this can be drawbacks to implementing an augmented reality.
He is doing quite well out of its endless game wow online, but in real life...
People has more chance to access virtual spaces. The popularlization of the virtual space brings the question of the concept between virtual and reality. It is quite hard to see the things as real or virtual as virtual space merges into real life. Online activity through the internet can structure the virtual community like cybersociety providing with new identity of yourself without physical contact. Virtual community should never be confused with real community.
By the way, I am interesting in 'virtual reality', that is the space where physical body can interact with virtual spaces. It is known that virtual reality is potential space for developing and innovating real life. For example, simulation is one. There are many types of simulation such as interactive simulation, medical simulation like therapeutic and diagnostic, and education and training simulations. These simulations are developed to provide a form of practice.
I watched some video of virtual reality on you tube, how they move, how devices move... it's very interesting! (its better put these videos if i know how to do..) I wanna try one! Their minds are in different world while they are accessing the virtual spaces although their physical body is in reality. I think it is contradictory that the virtual reality has to do with both virtual space and reality to play at real life. I believe that virtual reality can not perform physical reality perfectly with no nualce between them. So this can be drawbacks to implementing an augmented reality.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Blogs and Information
I missed last week's post...
Blogs to me seems rather subjective; a place for exchanging own opinions rather than providing information(at least that is how i am using my blog). Each person has different ways of using blogs, but anyone can access and write whatever they wants but opinons can not be considered as infomation. So the informational value of the blog is not so high, i think and also i believe that traditional mass media like televion and newspaper are still keeping higher reliability of information due to a code being followed by professional journalists.
However the improvement of blogs with higher reliabilities of information could be expected in the future, as many peope have prefered in two ways communication.
Blogs to me seems rather subjective; a place for exchanging own opinions rather than providing information(at least that is how i am using my blog). Each person has different ways of using blogs, but anyone can access and write whatever they wants but opinons can not be considered as infomation. So the informational value of the blog is not so high, i think and also i believe that traditional mass media like televion and newspaper are still keeping higher reliability of information due to a code being followed by professional journalists.
However the improvement of blogs with higher reliabilities of information could be expected in the future, as many peope have prefered in two ways communication.
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