Interactive Media with Max - Student Work 2017

In response to the difficulties with copyrighted material and its use in Digital Media, Stanford professor Dr. Lawrence Lessig founded the Creative Commons licensing system. He explains how it came about and why it addresses important issues in this video:

Sorry... couldn't help the title... Also so sorry I can't be in G'ville to see everyone's final presentations! Some fascinating work you all are doing!! I am attending the AEJMC (Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications) conference in Boston where SO much of the discussion and research is about new media and the way digital technologies are changing not just the NEWS, but our lives. Which leads me to my final blog post for this class. Pat requested we read a piece of FLOSS+Art and offer our comments. I read the chapter "Generous Practices: A Fictional Conversation, Based on Emails, Physical Encounters,IRC and a Skype session" by Femke Snelting. I found it of particular interest because it offered a perspective of copyright, copyleft, Creative Commons, and collaboration from the artists perspective. It's such an interesting dilemma as artists deserve to be compensated for their creative contributions, and perhaps if the system th

In reading the chapter from FLOSS+Artbook, "The Creative Commons Misunderstanding", I find myself discouraged at the parting of ways between the leaders of the CC movement and the Open Source movement because it would seem that they have the same aim. Like everything else with a political angle, it would seem to come down to semantics and rhetoric. The Open Source/GNU GPL faction would like to see changes in the CC licensing wording to more clearly define what is allowed usage and to promote true sharing for remixing rather than what the GNU GPL guys see as basically the same as the copyright restrictions in place now under standard copyright law. The open source faction would like to see more rights for the consumer and less control on the part of the copyright holder, or "producer". Art has always been exempt from many of the legal norms regarding copyright and the creation of digital products could be viewed as akin to the productio of art. I think it all boils

Excuse me if I riff... The DJ Spooky YouTube video was representative of his topic! He offered so much in such a short time. The points that stuck with me were his concepts of: "The Photoshop imagination," or the "layered sense of collage" that our media culture has become. And media as he describes it is both mass and individualized. Our culture is moving so rapidly. We are now expected to multitask, operating in multiple layers of thought and expression at once. His work is layer upon layer of visual, audio, and text messages, mixed and remixed. The mix sampling that DJs like Spooky are creating have also launched the "conversation between originality and derivative work" and "the tension between art and artifact." Our ability to individually create media -- from art, music, literature, etc. also represents history and beliefs (as he referred to as "playing with fragments of collective memory"). It has also opened the conversat