Antoine notes that the network is an ecology where you don’t just take, but also contribute. Jessica on the public, shared nature of these blogs, and David suspects that beyond cut and paste our literacy might be thin (and cut and paste is a digital, not network, literacy…). Then there’s on Caitlin on how interconnected everything can be, which is not the same as saying there there is six degrees of separation but that we now, literally, weave stuff together online. Nicola also notes the give and take nature of online practice.
Copyright, Notes, Confusion
Karlee gets a Flickr account (you get a terabyte free, a terabyte) and realises there are lots of images with creative commons licences that means you can use them. There’s music out there too peoples. Kiralee with a summary of the symposium, and then a link to an article about the Australian government’s current thinking about piracy.
Jamie is worried, the aim here is to mitigate this. Online is public, it is like standing in Flinders Street station at 5:30 on Friday afternoon yelling very loudly. If you say stupid stuff, people will think you’re stupid. If you say offensive stuff, people will be offended. It really isn’t any more complicated than that. Copyright, let people know where you got it from, embed from other services (YouTube, sound cloud, Flickr, and so on), and respect the rights available. You want to change the rules? Then share you stuff the way you want to be able to share others. Which would be my comment to Kenton, critical opinion is good, rants and uninformed opinion isn’t and shouldn’t happen in a university, so you really can’t get defamed for saying what you think if its well argued and evidenced.
UnHappy Birthday
And here’s the US advocacy site… http://www.unhappybirthday.com/ (in relation to copyright and Happy Birthday).
Happy Birthday as Copyright Case
Brady asks about Happy Birthday. Great example because for a long time you did not see or hear it in TV, or film, because Warners enforced copyright over it. Yes, you had to pay Warner Music to sing Happy Birthday. However, copyright lawyers were always suspicious of this and so are trying to prove that Warner’s don’t have copyright, and are wanting to recover money to pay people who have been sued, or paid for it, in the first place. For more see wikipedia and if nothing else realise that US copyright is different to everybody else’s. (We don’t need to register or publish a copyright symbol for copyright to apply.)
An Example
Discusses the world, the subject, making, and links aplenty. This post of Monique’s is a good exemplar.
Life and Stories
Rachel realises she can’t write down what she wants to happen for her life, as she could for a story. Personally I don’t think that’s diddly squat about network media (I’m not criticising Rachel, I’m the one who did bring it up), but it is a good thing to learn in general, and I’m very interested in learning things that make differences. To any and every thing. Brady thinks perhaps the internet is a story, but I think here what is actually described is history, and there is plenty of what is known as historiography which demonstrates that while history has traditionally been a narrative, cause and effect linear discipline, this isn’t how things really work (Hayden White is the person who has shown the history is actually story, not ‘truth’, while something like Manuel de Landa’s A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History shows how history isn’t, well, linear and sequential. Anyway, I think Brady is describing history, not a particular story, so it confuses the general with the individual. Karlee gets the role of materiality (what is known as the linguistic turn in theory in the 1960s and 70s is partly to blame here, language become the house of everything) which is a good thing to begin to grapple with. Amy tries hard to make her use of the internet a story (I’m always intrigued at the lengths we go to try and force a square peg into a triangular hole when it comes to stories). Just because things end and begin they are not a story. A highway, desk, cup of coffee, line on a piece of paper – all have a beginning and an end, none are stories in themselves. We can tell stories about them, but that is a very different thing to saying they are stories.
Literacies
Angus likes the convenience, but is sceptical about how it leads you astray. Rebecca realises that her train trip is a sort of living demo of network literacy (I don’t think it is, but hey). The really weird thing is to realise that since it is wireless, we’re all sitting in it. Alexandra realises that print literacy is a deep shared knowledge, unlike network literacy, and Carli is surprised to realise that the internet isn’t like a book.
Ashleigh has very useful summary points, and note, parts stay parts and we then weave. This is radically different to what was before (BW — Before Web). Ellen realises that using the web is not the same as being literate. For me this is like using a car, just because I can drive a car it doesn’t mean I’m ‘literate’ about cars, even if I drive a car a lot, even very well.
Blogs and…
Evelyn recognising that blogging isn’t easy. No, but also don’t confuse blogging with extroversion. I’m an introvert, and blogging works very well for me as I am interested in how it gives me a place to think, and to share that thinking (introverts aren’t shy, they just get value in other ways to extroverts). I guess I’m just wanting to say that blogging isn’t really about “me, me, me” if you don’t want it to be.
Stories and Materiality
Sarah wonders if children tell stories differently to how we ‘learn’ to what they are supposed to be, which relates to Seonaid too who picks up the key thing. It isn’t that books are wrong (they’re great) but surely this is not the only way we can tell stories? George thinks things probably do have ends, using the blog post as an example. I think a great question is “where does my blog begin, where does it end?”. Samuel has a really interesting conversation with himself about books, ebooks, sound and movies, some of us do fetishise the book, which isn’ a bad thing, but it is good to recognise it. Alexandra is realising that she might not fall in love just the way she hoped, world travel, foreign partner (no, network media is not taking the rap for that!).
Copying and publishing photos in Australia without permission – Media Report – ABC Radio National Australian Broadcasting Corporation
You can listen to this (use the audio links in the right menu), it is exactly about what the symposium was about. Discusses fair use, copyright, permissions, and so on. The context is news sites using professional photographer’s work on their sites without permission. Particularly note the comment where one response is to simply send them an invoice.