Every week we have to link someone else’s blog/tumblr/anything to our own blog.
This is my friend Greta’s blog. She made it in 2012, leading up to finishing school and moving overseas. Her photographs are beautiful and I love reading her stories and thoughts.
These weeks “lecture” (un-lecture) was quite interesting. We discussed the validity of material on the internet (copyright!) and were able to ask questions.
On the Network Media blog Adrian made a list of the questions of the week. See them —-> here
Basically what I got out of this lecture was that EVERYTHING is or could be copyrighted. It’s tiring to think about but it has made my opinion on Creative Commons much clearer – we should all use CC.
My boyfriend and I finished watching Fargo the other night and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since. I loved every part of it and can’t wait for the next season.
Billy Bob Thornton as Malvo was terrifyingly amazing, as was Martin Freeman as Lester Nygaard. Their characters were so powerful, managing to make me shit scared one second and then laugh the next.
If you haven’t watched it, do it.
Aaaand one more reading from week 2: “Blogs and Australian Law”.
This reading addressed the legal laws and issues that can occur whilst using blogs and more web based publications. With many dot points, the article discussed ‘What is a blog’, Copyright, Trade marks, Right of Publicity, Defamation…etc.
Under the copyright dot point, there is a strong emphasis on always being aware of who the copyright owner is, whether the 70 years copyright period has expired and what exceptions will apply to you. Before this reading I didn’t know that there was an entire council dedicated to dealing with copyright and that is where you should turn if you have any questions.
The other section regarding copyright that interested me was about using short quotes, names, slogans or titles. As it turns out, these are all mostly too short to gain copyright protection. Phew!
Even though I did read/watch the week two readings last week, enjoyed them and took notes on them – I forgot to blog about them until now… So here we go.
The Video Magazine about Creative Commons and Copyright Info gave me a well rounded idea about CC and when/where/who uses it. I had never heard of CC before this semester so I found it very interesting that an artist can give permission for others to use their materials whilst following the licence that the artist has chosen. In the video we were given examples about the different types of licences. One licence example is NC which stands for ‘Non Commercial’. The artist gives permission for others to use their work, however if someone prints the work onto a tshirts and gives them to friends, as long as they aren’t selling them and making money, this is fine!
I think that CC is a great way of sharing work and allowing strangers to use your work – as long as the guidelines and licenses are followed correctly!
Last semester in Writing Media Texts we had to create a short film with a single take. Our group chose the theme Redemption and we were happy with the final result!
I just came back from a two and a half week holiday in New Zealand with my boyfriend, John.
We were actually meant to go to Indonesia but when we arrived at the airport John’s passport was declined because it was 6 days under the 6 month validity. We called all the embassies and then started calling airports as well, trying to find a way to get on the plane but to no avail. So… New Zealand was the only place that only had a 3 month validity law so we bought plane tickets to leave that night! It was very spontaneous and completely different to what Indonesia would have been like, but we had an amazing time and were very happy we ended up in NZ.
