{"id":36,"date":"2012-09-24T07:26:47","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T07:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/ajepsen\/?p=36"},"modified":"2012-09-24T07:26:47","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T07:26:47","slug":"reeemixx-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/ajepsen\/2012\/09\/24\/reeemixx-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Reeemixx: Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

This second reading that I am going to be blogging on is Remix<\/em><\/a>, written by Lawrence Lessig<\/a>.\u00a0 Lessig was a professor of Law at Stanford University, and is now a professor of Law at Harvard University.\u00a0 So, this guys credentials cannot be overlooked by any means.\u00a0 He is also apart of several associations\/foundations \u2013 some include Center for Internet and Society, Creative Commons and Rootstrikers.\u00a0 Besides academia, Lessig is a political advocate.\u00a0 He advocates the limiting of legal restrictions on technological applications, which is where the term \u2018remix\u2019 comes in.\u00a0 And, ironically all this information I am getting on Lessig is from Wikipedia.\u00a0 Yea, yea, I know\u2026. Wikipedia is not a reliable source. Blah blah. But, his personal website doesn\u2019t say anything about him, and when it comes to general background information, Wikipedia can come into handy.\u00a0 Anyways.<\/p>\n

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Remix<\/a>: Part 1 addresses several issues of our digital age \u2013 Lessig introduced the terms RW (reading\/writing) and RO (Reading Only), which are used throughout this first portion.\u00a0 He makes a point that before the technological era everyone was a RW, more interactive with the culture.\u00a0 Whereas now, with all of the technology advancements, we are mainly an RO culture.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere\u2019s a part of culture that we simply consume. We listen to music. We watch a movie. We read a book. With each, we\u2019re not expected to do much more than simply consume.* We might hum along with the music. We might reenact a \"\"<\/a>dance from a movie. Or we might quote a passage from the book in a letter to a friend. But in the main, this kind of culture is experienced through the act of consumption. There\u2019s a beginning, a middle, and an end to that consumption. Once we\u2019ve finished it, we put the work away.\u201d (37)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I once again catch myself nodding my head as I am reading this portion.\u00a0 We are a society that is becoming so obsessed with consumption.\u00a0 And this is on so many other levels.\u00a0 People are so willing to perform illegal actions in order to get what they want.\u00a0 Music, movies, books, photos, television shows \u2013 if any of these categories do not provide access, people will go out of their way to find a way to access it (YouTube, Wikipedia).\u00a0 That is where these copyright laws and privacy infringement comes into play. \u00a0\u00a0I agree with Lessig when he says that there needs to be a balance between access and control that would satisfy both consumers and creators.\u00a0 Because, like we have seen with the innovation of iTunes, Steve Jobs did a great job in creating the program.\u00a0 It is a place where you store all your music, and as the program grew, it started providing more sources to access.\u00a0 Which, we have obviously seen that people will pay for it, as long as it stays available when they want it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe expectation of access on demand builds slowly, and it builds differently across generations. But at a certain point, perfect access (meaning the ability to get whatever you want whenever you want it) will seem obvious. And when it seems obvious, anything that resists that expectation will seem ridiculous. Ridiculous, in turn, makes many of us willing to break the rules that restrict access. Even the good become pirates in a world where the rules seem absurd.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This idea of \u201cremixing\u201d needs to be addressed.\u00a0 I particularly enjoyed the example of a father who wants to make a home video and include a video clip of a movie, and Disney feels they should be compensated for it.\u00a0 First of all, it\u2019s not like Disney isn\u2019t extremely successful already\u2026 Secondly, it is a father who just wants to put a nice home video together.\u00a0 He wants to take all of his memories and tie them together with a movie clip, music\u2014things that helped make those memories \u2013 I do not see anything wrong with this. If he was going to turn it in to a television show to win a prize, then there is something wrong there. \u00a0\u00a0Lessig mentions that \u201cpiracy\u201d was unavoidable given the \u201cnature\u201d of digital techonologies.\u00a0 I agree and disagree with this statement.\u00a0 Yes, the content is out there \u2013 However, you definitely need to go out of your way to find something that is not suppose to be found (if that makes any sense).<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cthe RIAA had sent around 2,500 prelitigation letters to twenty-three more universities across the nation, threatening action based upon students\u2019 allegedly illegal downloading of copy- righted content.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is really unfortunate that universities took action on this.\u00a0 That is my personal opinion.\u00a0 I am someone who does not enjoy paying for music.\u00a0 So, for universities to be able to monitor that type of activity while on their network is fishy to me.\u00a0 I feel like my privacy is not respected and that universities should not have that sort of access to my online history.\u00a0 Anywho.<\/p>\n

I laughed at the reference to citing authors and quotes in academic papers.\u00a0 I swear, if I had to contact the author every time I wanted to include them in a research paper, or just a simple reference, I think I would go crazy or drop out of college.\u00a0 I give everyone credit where credit is due and that should be enough.\u00a0 They should be humbled and honored that people use their knowledge and wisdom to make and backup arguments.\u00a0 That is why I feel that if is just a simple, harmless use of words, and is properly credited \u2013 let it be.\u00a0 However, if someone is caught for deliberately trying to work the system, be my guest, press charges and convict away.<\/p>\n

Mmk. Byeee.<\/p>\n

Yours Truly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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