Intellectual Property (Lecture 17) 'Digital Barbarism' Wages Online Copyright Battle. Ten songs stolen by politicians. 24 September 2010Last updated at 13:28 By Cat Koo BBC News Swedish band Abba is suing a Danish anti-immigration party for using their song, Mama Mia in a rally. The youth wing of the party sang the song, changing its lyrics to suit their far-right agenda. But the Swedish legends are by no means the only musicians to object to politicians using their work. Here are 10 others: Earlier this year, the British Conservative Party used the rock group's 2004 hit in their election campaign. Drummer Richard Hughes posted on Twitter that the Tories had not asked for permission and that he would not be voting for the party. Singer Tim Booth complained about the use of the band's song at a Labour Party Conference in 2008.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP party used the smash single by indie band MGMT at its national congress, and in two online videos, in 2009. . • Jackson Browne sued Mr McCain for the use of Running on Empty. Sticky Knowledge and Copyright. Lawrence Lessig. Lawrence "Larry" Lessig (born June 3, 1961) is an American academic and political activist. He is a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications, and he has called for state-based activism to promote substantive reform of government with a Second Constitutional Convention.[1] In May 2014, he launched a crowd-funded political action committee which he termed Mayday PAC with the purpose of electing candidates to Congress who would pass campaign finance reform.[2] Lessig is director of the Edmond J.
Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University and a professor of law at Harvard Law School. Previously, he was a professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of the Center for Internet and Society. Academic career[edit] Interview with Lawrence Lessig in 2009 Lessig started his academic career at the University of Chicago Law School, where he was Professor from 1991 to 1997. Political activism[edit] Get the Report | Media Piracy in Emerging Economies | A Report by the Social Science Research Council.
Joe Biden: There's No Reason To Treat Intellectual Property Any Different Than Tangible Property. Ah, Joe Biden. Is there nothing about intellectual property that he can't get wrong? Variety has an interview with the Vice President on intellectual property issues, and while there's nothing new, it's like a compendium of wrong or misleading statements. It's no wonder the entertainment industry so loves him. There's no lie or misrepresentation he won't repeat. "Look, piracy is outright theft," Biden said. First, "piracy" is not "outright theft.
" He is quick to say that he considers it more than a problem of just the entertainment industry. Biden may be even worse than John Morton at this conflation game. "Virtually every American company that manufactures something is getting killed by counterfeiters: clothing, software, jewelry, tires," Biden said. Getting killed? Besides, if we're really saying that copying ideas and passing them off as your own is "theft" and should be punished the same as "theft" of tangible goods, shouldn't Joe Biden be in jail? Oh come on! U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright Act (1790) Introduction This is a digital archive of primary sources on copyright from the invention of the printing press (c. 1450) to the Berne Convention (1886) and beyond.
The UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded the initial phase (completed in 2008) focusing on key materials from Renaissance Italy (Venice, Rome), France, the German speaking countries, Britain and the United States. We are now adding materials from other countries. Primary sources from Spain were published in 2012, and the Netherlands will follow in 2014. Using the archive for the first time? A possible starting point is here. For each of the geographical zones/jurisdictions, a national editor has taken responsibility for selecting, sourcing, transcribing, translating and commenting documents. The national editors’ brief was to limit the selection to 50 core documents for Germany, France, Britain and Spain, and to 20 core documents for Italy and the US (these covering only a shorter period). Legal issues with BitTorrent. In general, a BitTorrent file can be seen as a hyperlink. However, it can also be a very specific instruction of how to obtain something on the internet.
BitTorrent files may also transmit or include illegal or copyrighted content. Court decisions in various nations have in fact deemed some BitTorrent files illegal. Complicating the legal analysis are jurisdictional issues that are common when nation states attempt to regulate any activity on the Internet. BitTorrent files and links can be accessed in different geographic locations and legal jurisdictions.
Copyright enforcement[edit] Numerous law enforcement raids and legal actions have led to the closure of several BitTorrent related websites since 2004. Finland: Finreactor[edit] In December 2004, the Finnish police raided a major BitTorrent site, Finreactor.[3][4] Seven system administrators and four others were ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of euros in damages. Hong Kong: Individual actions[edit] Slovenia: Suprnova[edit] What is Intellectual Property? Intellectual property (IP) refers to creations of the mind, such as inventions; literary and artistic works; designs; and symbols, names and images used in commerce.
IP is protected in law by, for example, patents, copyright and trademarks, which enable people to earn recognition or financial benefit from what they invent or create. By striking the right balance between the interests of innovators and the wider public interest, the IP system aims to foster an environment in which creativity and innovation can flourish. What is IP? Understanding Copyright and Related Rights ǀ Understanding Industrial PropertyWIPO Intellectual Property Handbook - a comprehensive guide to the policy, law and use of IP. Intellectual property. Intellectual property (IP) rights are the legally recognized exclusive rights to creations of the mind.[1] Under intellectual property law, owners are granted certain exclusive rights to a variety of intangible assets, such as musical, literary, and artistic works; discoveries and inventions; and words, phrases, symbols, and designs.
Common types of intellectual property rights include copyright, trademarks, patents, industrial design rights, trade dress, and in some jurisdictions trade secrets. Although many of the legal principles governing intellectual property rights have evolved over centuries, it was not until the 19th century that the term intellectual property began to be used, and not until the late 20th century that it became commonplace in the majority of the world.[2] The British Statute of Anne (1710) and the Statute of Monopolies (1624) are now seen as the origins of copyright and patent law respectively.[3] History[edit] Types[edit] Patents[edit] Copyright[edit] Morality[edit] Advertizing (Lecture 16) Calisphere - Early Advertising. Questions to Consider What do these early ads reveal about American culture during the early 20th century? How are today's ads different from these older ones?
Which brands have survived? About the Images The modern advertising industry really began in the early 1900s. These early advertising images show how companies approached the business of selling products, places, and ideas in the early 20th century. Overview The promotion of products, particularly national brands, began to become more prevalent in the early 1900s. Photographs of displays from the Westwood Hardware and Furniture Store in 1936 advertise kitchen stoves and camps stoves from Coleman; and Dr. California was linked with oranges for decades, thanks to early promotion by fruit producers. As the United States entered World War II, it sponsored advertising promoting behavior, ideas, and nationalistic sentiments. California Content Standards English-Language Arts Grade 4: 1.0 Writing Strategies: Research and Technology Grade 8:
Early advertising. The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920. Neuroscience Marketing - Brain, Behavior, and Neuromarketing. Vance Packard. Vance Packard (May 22, 1914 – December 12, 1996) was an American journalist, social critic, and author. Life and career[edit] He was born in Granville Summit, Pennsylvania, to Philip J. Packard and Mabel Case Packard. Between 1920-32 he attended local public schools in State College, Pennsylvania, where his father managed a dairy farm owned by the Pennsylvania State College (later Penn State University).
In 1932 he entered Penn State, majoring in English. He graduated in 1936, and worked briefly for the local newspaper, the Centre Daily Times. He earned his master's degree at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1937. About 1940, he became a reporter for the Associated Press and in 1942, joined the staff of The American Magazine as a section editor, later becoming a staff writer. The Hidden Persuaders[edit] Vance Packard's book The Hidden Persuaders, about media manipulation in the 1950s, sold more than a million copies. Publications[edit] References[edit] [edit] Edward Bernays. The Death of Advertizing. Jarvis Coffin: Reports of the Death of Advertising Are Exaggerated. Over at Buzzmachine.com Jeff Jarvis has been speculating on the decline of advertising in a one-to-one world linking consumers with marketers. Google presumably makes this possible. Social networking presumably makes this possible. They are the high-tech conduits of word-of-mouth, which has always had the underlying responsibility for building brands.
Give consumers the power on their own through these and other tools to talk about brand experiences and marketers can cut out the middleman: advertising. Rumors of the death of advertising are driven as well by the fact that advertising grew so pervasive and intrusive off-line that skipping commercials became a business, starting with the remote control, then the VCR, then TiVo, Napster, the iPod, etc. James Fallows gave time in his Atlantic Monthly blog last month to the idea that newspapers aren't dying; instead, advertising is dying and dragging newspapers and other media down with it. Here's my take: nothing is dying. Bad idea. Culture Wars Feature Article: Torches of Freedom. The Torches of Freedom Campaign: Behaviorism, Advertising, and the Rise of the American EmpirePart 3 of a 3 part article originally published in the April-June 1999 issues of Culture Wars magazine, and exerpted from Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control (South Bend: St.
Augustine’s Press, 1999), available from Fidelity Press. by E. Michael Jones, Ph.D. Torches of Freedom On March 31, 1929, a woman by the name of Bertha Hunt stepped into the throng of pedestrians in their Sunday-best clothing marching down Fifth Avenue in what was known in New York as the Easter Parade, and created a sensation by lighting up a Lucky Strike cigarette. Eddie Bernays, whose wife belonged to the Lucy Stone League, which argued that women should be able to keep their own (i.e., their father’s) names after marriage, was a fervent feminist, but his was a feminism with an ulterior motive. At Bernays’ suggestion, Hill paid for a consulting session with the Psychoanalyst A.A. John B. No Logo by Naomi Klein (part I) 'As a private person, I have a passion for landscape, and I have never seen one improved by a billboard.
Where every prospect pleases, man is at his vilest when he erects a billboard. When I retire from Madison Avenue, I am going to start a secret society of masked vigilantes who will travel around the world on silent motor bicycles, chopping down posters at the dark of the moon. How many juries will convict us when we are caught in these acts of beneficent citizenship? ' David Ogilvy, founder of the Ogilvy & Mather advertising agency, in Confessions of an Advertising Man, 1963 The astronomical growth in the wealth and cultural influence of multi-national corporations over the last fifteen years can arguably be traced back to a single, seemingly innocuous idea developed by management theorists in the mid-1980s: that successful corporations must primarily produce brands, as opposed to products.
The Beginning of the Brand The Brand's Death (Rumors of Which Had Been Greatly Exaggerated) Free speech v. commercial speech. The High Cost of Free Speech In U.S. courts, freedom of speech increasingly means freedom to advertise [ by Jay Huber ] A stark image: a man, black or white, stands impassively and stares at the viewer. He wears a prisoner’s jumpsuit. The only words say the prisoner’s name and that he is on death row. The recent Benetton campaign contains no clear statement about either clothing or the death penalty. Historically, advertising didn’t receive the same constitutional protection as political speech, one form of free speech the Founding Fathers had in mind when they drafted the First Amendment.
Adopted within the Bill of Rights in 1791, the Free Speech clause of the First Amendment reads: "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech" Simple, clear. There’s no doubt that political speech was at the core of the Founders’s concerns when they drafted this phrase, and by its adoption they established an ideal that robust debate was healthier for the people than suppression. Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars - The Chronicle Review. By Geoffrey Nunberg Whether the Google books settlement passes muster with the U.S. District Court and the Justice Department, Google's book search is clearly on track to becoming the world's largest digital library. No less important, it is also almost certain to be the last one. Google's five-year head start and its relationships with libraries and publishers give it an effective monopoly: No competitor will be able to come after it on the same scale.
Nor is technology going to lower the cost of entry. Scanning will always be an expensive, labor-intensive project. Of course, 50 or 100 years from now control of the collection may pass from Google to somebody else—Elsevier, Unesco, Wal-Mart. That realization lends a particular urgency to the concerns that people have voiced about the settlement —about pricing, access, and privacy, among other things. Doing it right depends on what exactly "it" is. Start with publication dates. How frequent are such errors? Narrowcast (Lecture 15) The telegraph : Stendhal, 1783-1842. Semaphore Telegraph.
From Dead Media Archive Semaphore Telegraph, also known as the optical telegraph, was the "first practical system of long-distance telegraphic communication" (Bray 35). Semaphore means "sign" (sema) and "to bear" (pherins). Typically, it is described as a communications medium which required the use of manual movable arms or closeable apertures mounted in towers (on hilltops) that were in line-of-sight. However, it was first used in the United States to signal the arrival of ships at port. Encode/ Decode "One of the early characteristics of the early non-electrical systems was that they were capable of transmitting very little information; for example, if you had previously agree that lighting a signal fire means 'The city has fallen', you have no means of sending an alternative message such as 'Clytemnestra has twins', although it may be of equal importance.
In a very limited sense the information is coded, that is the occurrence of fire means a certain message and no other" (Beck 45). "Mr. Watson -- come here!" (Reason): American Treasures of the Library of Congress. Samuel Morse. Morse Code & the Telegraph — History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts. Telegraphy. Telegraph-History. "American Progress," painting by John Gast, 1872. Early Telegraph Unites Domestic Market But Not World Market. Telegraph cable across Atlantic. Telephone and Telegraph. GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF TELEGRAPH LINES - Mr. Clark of the Western Union Discusses the Question. - View Article.