Week 2 questions

Here they are, a bit late, but better late than never.

 

  1. Though songs are copyrighted etc. what can potentially happen when we post videos or publicly sing songs that are copyrighted. I don’t mean mainstream music, however in particular I mean “the world’s most popular song” ‘Happy Birthday’.
  2. When embedding youtube videos, is there any particular written copyright regarding the embedding of those videos, stopping you from posting certain videos.
  3. Can the potential policing of copyright through ISP’s be seen as completely legal? Does it not imply that ISP’s are going to know the type of content we are engaging with. e.g. P2P for piracy. Could this not be a further risk to the online privacy which we all desire?

The continuation of a story

So as many of you may know, 50 shades of grey is the best selling book series by E.L. James. What some of you may no know (doubtful because its so prolific) is that they have made a movie about it, somehow…

This, I feel emphasises the idea that current stories are ‘never ending’. It shows how the form of a book, with all of their constraints as Adrian puts it can evolve into a film, extending the story even further. So have a look at the new trailer below, she seems like a bit of a saucy film, but who doesn’t want a bit of sauce with their pie at the footy?

Beginnings, middles and ends.

So, stories have beginnings, middles and ends, apparently the Internet does not, but, how do we really know?

Personally, I believe that we can actually conceptualise the internet into a story with a ‘beginning, middle and end’. Could we not say that the beginning of the ‘story’ of the internet is the actual creation of it for military purposes? What if the reason there is no visible ‘end’ to the story of the internet is because we are in the middle? Maybe the end of the story that is the internet, is the actual demise of the internet, and the reason why we see it as not having an end is because the story, in terms of history, has just begun, and there is a long way to go?

I think I just confused myself and anyone who reads this, but in all seriousness, what if…..

(see what I did there?)