This is my final project for Kraig Baker’s Digital Media Law & Policy course at the University of Washington Master of Communication in Digital Media program, Spring Quarter 2009.
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Embrace Infringement
Friday, June 12th, 2009Tags: brands, colbert, copyright, infringement, jenkins, kinder, Kraig Baker, law, lessig, piracy, policy, shirky, social media
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Reading reflections: the trouble with mass media
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009Question 1 – In Yochai Benkler’s Wealth of Networks, we read the following statement in chapter 6:
The core role of the political public sphere is to provide a platform for converting privately developed observations, intuitions, and opinions into public opinions that can be brought to bear in the political system toward determining collective action.
The Internet is increasingly becoming that sphere’s platform. However, policymakers have tended to enact legislation which seeks to repress activity that great numbers of people within this sphere otherwise view as legitimate. This is generally perceived as reactive to these activities’ tendencies – they violate previous policy effected for traditional media. In a recent article published in the Times of London regarding online film piracy (piracy being one such example of a violating activity), Becky Hogge with the Open Rights Group observed:
When you have six million people breaking the law, it’s the law that needs changing, not the people.
How do we change policy to better support new public opinion while still protecting the privileges of those whose past rights are becoming violated, essentially, by new public opinion?
Tags: aXXo, Barack Obama, CNN, communication, government, law, mass media, new media, old media, Open Rights Group, piracy, policy, social media, The Wealth of Networks, traditional media, Yochai Benkler
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