diff --git a/20-21/Lectures/#DMCA.org# b/20-21/Lectures/#DMCA.org# deleted file mode 100644 index cadf7be..0000000 --- a/20-21/Lectures/#DMCA.org# +++ /dev/null @@ -1,124 +0,0 @@ -# -*- mode: org -*- -#+TITLE: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act: -#+AUTHOR: Dr Carey Pridgeon, Dr Nazaraf Shah -* setup :noexport: -#+OPTIONS: reveal_center:t reveal_progress:t reveal_history:t reveal_control:t -#+OPTIONS: reveal_mathjax:t reveal_rolling_links:t reveal_keyboard:t reveal_overview:t num:nil -#+OPTIONS: reveal_width:1200 reveal_height:800 -#+OPTIONS: toc:nil num:nil H:2 ^:{} -#+REVEAL_MARGIN: 0.2 -#+REVEAL_MIN_SCALE: 0.5 -#+REVEAL_MAX_SCALE: 2.5 -#+REVEAL_TRANS: none -#+REVEAL_THEME: night -#+REVEAL_HLEVEL: 999 -#+REVEAL_EXTRA_CSS: css/presentation.css -#+REVEAL_ROOT: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/reveal.js/3.0.0/ -#+STARTUP: showeverything -# Licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 -# International by Dr Carey Pridgeon 2020 -* The Digital Millennium Copyright Act -** -- The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA was brought into law in the US - in 1998. -- By implementing two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property - Organization it criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, - devices, or services intended to circumvent measures that control access to - copyrighted works. -- In short, in seeks to prevent the diseminination, *by any means*, of original - copyrighted works by anyone but the copyright holder. -- This includes piracy (obviously), copying videos or DVD's. -** -- It's legal to make a copy of any form of media you own, for personal - use. However, it is *technically* not legal to circumvent copy protection - measures. -- Since these are routinely used on almost all digital media, most people seem to assume - the personal use clause no longer exists. -** -- Video clips from any movie can be used when creating another video, and this - is most often seen on platforms such as Youtube. -- However such use often causes those videos to be claimed by the original - content creator, even when usage falls within the realm of fair use. -** -- Music sampling, if the result is either sold or placed online, will be a - target for litigation, as sampled songs became so popular, remixing so much - older music, the copyright holders of that music started taking the samplers - to court -- Sometimes these cases resulted in them demanding all of the profits [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Upright_Music,_Ltd._v._Warner_Bros._Records_Inc.][Grand - Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Bros. Records Inc.]], [[https://www.ip-watch.org/2016/06/28/us-courts-split-on-legality-of-music-sampling/][US Courts Split On Legality - Of Music Sampling]]., [[https://flypaper.soundfly.com/discover/5-music-copyright-cases-every-songwriter-should-know-about/][5 Music Copyright Cases Every Songwriter Should Know About]] -** Is The DMCA Fair -- One thing it set out to do was remove fair use, because fair use isn't - profitable. -- I own a good number of DVDs. If the full force of the DMCA were allowed to - take hold I would be forced to replace my entire collection each time - technology advanced to the point my current collection became unusable. This - happened to my audio cassettes, and to my video tapes (although both of those - wore out through re-use, so we'ren't that good anyway). -** -- Some things, like my BBC Shakespeare play DVD boxset, can't be so easily - replaced. Others got their soundtracks replaced because obtaining the rights - to the original music used again would cost too much for such obscure shows. -- If they get re-released at all, why do this when there's streaming now. -- Much better to have a reguler income from customers who will be impressed by - 'hundreds of shows available', but likely only watch the new ones. -** -- Without private copy rights, Lots of these shows wouldn't be available. Once - streaming replaces personal ownership completely, there won't be any option to - flick through your old collection. That has more appeal than you might think. -- Mind you, DVD itself is a dead format, private *digital* copies are the future, - and I think this is what most concerns copyright protection people, since - digital copies can be shared. -- However, so could filmstock (more on this later), and audiotape, then - videotape and DVD. None of that, including online piracy, has brought down the - music, movie or television industries. Producing terrible content no-one's - interested in buying's done most of the harm. -** Let's talk about Hollywood -- One of the groups that wield the DMCA most is Hollywood, using it to protect - their movies, (currently, for some bizarre reason, from being used in Youtube - videos which would actually raise the profile of their products, but I don't - get how they work, which they either take over, monetise or take down). -- Disney in particular have had US Copyright extended *specifically* to enable - them to retain ownership of their Mickey Mouse character. Loads of content - would now be in the public domain were it not for Disney's desire to retain - ownership of the mouse. - -** -- What's really interesting is how Hollywood started. A group of film makers ran - all the way to California (a long distance at the time) to get away from this - guy, Thomas Edison, and his fim camera patents and copyrights, because his - rights enforcement was so severe it prevented them from making any significant - profit. -[[file:img/Thomas_Edison.jpg]] -** -- Yet at the same time Edison took the entire catalogue of pioneering french - film maker Georges Méliès, now known as the pioneer of film special effects, - inventing many of those we know today more than a hundred years ago. -- By releasing his entire catalogue of movies and taking credit, he stole - millions of dollars from Méliès. Lacking the financial buffer this would have - given him this, among too many pressures to list here, caused him to die - bankrupt [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_M%C3%A9li%C3%A8s][Wikipedia page on Méliès]] -[[file:img/George_Melies.jpg]] -** -- One could make the argument the DMCA exist because the US has learned from - their mistakes, but as these mistakes seem to be ongoing, with the oppression - of new artists, and software developers trying to create innovative products, - I doubt this the case. -- Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, in spite of being a billionaire, has filed - patent and copyright infringement cases against Apple, AOL, Facebook, Google, - and anyone his *definitely not a patent troll* company can find who might be - infringing on one of the many thousands of patents they've managed to buy up. -- Since buying thousands of vaguely worded software patents and then suing - companies with them is exactly how patent trolls behave, it's kind of - difficult to think this isn't exactly what they are. - - - -** Obligatory XKCD -file:img/DMCA.png -- Copyright: -- Mirrored to avoid bandwidth stealing -** Licence for this work -- Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 - International by Dr Carey Pridgeon 2020 -- (Licence does not cover linked images owned by other content creators) diff --git a/20-21/Lectures/.DS_Store b/20-21/Lectures/.DS_Store index d7499e6..af000be 100644 Binary files a/20-21/Lectures/.DS_Store and b/20-21/Lectures/.DS_Store differ diff --git a/20-21/Lectures/Being_An_Open_Source_Developer.org b/20-21/Lectures/Being_An_Open_Source_Developer.org index 63de9b4..9ac1b90 100644 --- a/20-21/Lectures/Being_An_Open_Source_Developer.org +++ b/20-21/Lectures/Being_An_Open_Source_Developer.org @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ #+REVEAL_MIN_SCALE: 0.5 #+REVEAL_MAX_SCALE: 2.5 #+REVEAL_TRANS: none -#+REVEAL_THEME: simple +#+REVEAL_THEME: night #+REVEAL_HLEVEL: 999 #+REVEAL_EXTRA_CSS: css/presentation.css #+REVEAL_ROOT: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/reveal.js/3.0.0/ @@ -77,11 +77,10 @@ developments in the community - At present so far as I'm aware the most common method used to arrange these is the [[https://www.meetup.com][Meetup]] Site. -- While not dedicated solely, or even initially, at Open Source. 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- - - - - - diff --git a/20-21/Lectures/polymathy_and_open_source.org b/20-21/Lectures/polymathy_and_open_source.org index 28617ee..50a19b2 100644 --- a/20-21/Lectures/polymathy_and_open_source.org +++ b/20-21/Lectures/polymathy_and_open_source.org @@ -110,11 +110,12 @@ file:img/imhotep.jpg - As stated at the beginning of this lecture, it literally means learning a number of different subjects (and being able to apply them). - These can be aspects of computer science when you start out, there certainly - are a lot of aspects to pick up, and right now you know so few, but true - polymathy involves diverse fields. + are a lot of aspects to pick up, and right now you know a few, but true + polymathy involves diverse fields, not just the ones you study at University + or in any formal setting. ** -- Also, Computing is a massive field, and we've only started learning all the - areas it can be applied to. +- Also, Computing is a massive field, and we, as a field, only started learning + all the areas it can be applied to. - Pre 2000's, no-one really thought there would be any money to be made in social media. - Apps were developed, but only as additions to existing services