Hello! My Own Blog!
Thursday, 17. May 2007, 01:25:19
Oh, my lord. I don't know what is with me. Finally, I am back and changed the banner I have always planned. As you can tell, I am supposed to be a fan of South Park. This popular cartoon is irritating enough to be loved. The most irritating character is Eric Cartman, a fat kid who is so far away from being cute but only interested in adults' realities. The more Cartman pisses people off, the more I like his character. He reflects those sour, evil, stingy, selfish and jealous nature of all people surrounding us, including ourselves. That is the reason I am worshiping him with my banner. No, just kidding.
Below picture is from South Park, and I didn't ask for a permission to put on my blog. Should I ask for a permission? Where should I ask from? The cartoon production company or Comedy Central? In April 2007, a poor Taiwanese college student was sentenced 5 months or fine NT$150,000 (about US$4,500) for uploading lots of popular songs on his blog. I don't think the sentence is fair; there are many people acting the same but got away with it. This scares me. Think about it. A lot of people just want to share or simply put what we are listening and viewing onto our web journals but not for any commercial use at all. Maybe, we just have to record our own songs, write our own lyrics, illustrate our own pictures, and videotape our lives for our own blogs... Yes, we shouldn't share some things that don't belong to us. Protect Copyrights!? I don't know how much I can control myself from sharing things don't belong to me... I just don't know... how to live in this extreme capitalist world.
Below picture is from South Park, and I didn't ask for a permission to put on my blog. Should I ask for a permission? Where should I ask from? The cartoon production company or Comedy Central? In April 2007, a poor Taiwanese college student was sentenced 5 months or fine NT$150,000 (about US$4,500) for uploading lots of popular songs on his blog. I don't think the sentence is fair; there are many people acting the same but got away with it. This scares me. Think about it. A lot of people just want to share or simply put what we are listening and viewing onto our web journals but not for any commercial use at all. Maybe, we just have to record our own songs, write our own lyrics, illustrate our own pictures, and videotape our lives for our own blogs... Yes, we shouldn't share some things that don't belong to us. Protect Copyrights!? I don't know how much I can control myself from sharing things don't belong to me... I just don't know... how to live in this extreme capitalist world.
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lsaplai # 17. May 2007, 06:15
An excellent example of how CC can be applied is Jamendo (http://www.jamendo.com) a free music download site. The principle is simple: all songs are free and willingly shared by their authors. They are all original work (of course, one wouldnt want to have problems with the labels...) with various quality but there are a lot of very, very good songs. Of course, you won't find there the latest top of the charts because those artists are totally unknown but with its ever increasing popularity, I wouldn't be surprised to see a few successes emerge from Jamendo.
Listen to this for instance: (link to the page as I don;t know how to add an embedded 'object' in a blog comment. it doesn't seem to work at all): http://www.jamendo.com/fr/album/3774/?refuid=75174
Check here to have an idea of the popularite of Jamendo: http://www.jamendo.com/fr/?p=stats
So, do not worry too much. I strongly beleive that Copyrights are a thing of the past and will disappear sooner than the music industry would like us to believe. In the meantine, be sure to give credit to the creator / owner and to honour requests for removal as soon as you receive them.
Good to see you back!
Joymeng # 17. May 2007, 20:38
I am so glad that you are on more left side. Ha...ha...ha... You are absolutely right on sharing those works from the authors who don't mind to share with no charge. I am going to keep my eyes and ears on those artists and pay my high respect to their generosity and talents.
jamendo.com seems to be a fun site to browse around. Thank you very much for the alternatives. I love alternative ways for everything.
anzah # 18. May 2007, 10:48
For general public domain stuff (read old), archive.org is good place to visit. And those are just examples, I have some more sites in my blog, if I dig deep enough and I'm sure there are even more sites out there that have properly licensed free stuff.
Joymeng # 19. May 2007, 21:09
I am glad that you came by and suggested useful links. I had been too lazy to look into resources. Now, having you mention them, I have no excuses to be lazy any longer. Thanks a lot. I will check out your writings regarding to sharing photos that won't get us into copyright trouble.
lsaplai # 22. May 2007, 06:43
this shold address some of your fears about copyright:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo
Joymeng # 22. May 2007, 20:48
I will be smarter if you keep showering me goodies. Thanks, I am going to discuss Professor Eric Faden's teaching cartoon(Bucknell University)on my Chinese blog. He is so brilliant to teach copyrights with a cartoon like that. It is not very easy to chop little pieces from various films for telling a new story and still make a lot of sense. Editing that kind of videos would drive an editor nuts.