1. Traditionally, what role has played intellectual property in America?
Traditionally, in America, intellectual property has only set the grounds for a richly creative society. Therefore, intellectual property is subservient to the value of creativity. The original intention of copyrights law was to control publishing. Nowadays, the law is trying to regulate publishing and to control creativity as well. According to the author, the law has to differentiate between republishing someone’s work and building upon or transforming that work. It appears as the law is mostly concerned with protecting an industry rather than supporting creativity.
2. How Walt Disney did use intellectual property?
Among the classical examples of creative people who have built upon somebody else’s work is Walt Disney. He started by copying and incorporating sound techniques used in film in cartoons. Before creating anything new Disney simply added to the work of others. His cartoon “Steamboat Bill Jr.” was a parody of Buster Keaton’s silent film with the same title and song theme. From this parody Mickey Mouse was born. He created something new out of something old. This is the kind of creativity we need to remember and celebrate.
3. What is Doujinshi?
Parodies and building upon previous work is not strange to other cultures and countries. Japan has its Doujinshi; a copycat comic whose purpose is not merely to copy but contribute to the art it copies. By doing so, the original work is spurred and becomes wealthier. This phenomenon would not be possible if Japanese lawyers were preoccupied with maintaining the legality of copyrights.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
The history of email
My presentation topic would be " The history of email ."
I would like to tell 3 or 4 parts as followings:
1. Who really invented email?
2.Time line of the history of email
3. Advantages and disadvantages of email
4.Future of email
I would like to tell 3 or 4 parts as followings:
1. Who really invented email?
2.Time line of the history of email
3. Advantages and disadvantages of email
4.Future of email
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Summary of Startup.com
“Startup.com” is a pretty good documentary centering around two friends, Kalei Tuzman and Tom Herman who begin their company and in less than 2 years are running a 50 million-dollar corporation employing over 250 people. And then it all begins to fall apart rapidly. It is not only about their success and failure of their business, but also about their strong friendship remains despite the wringer. Watching the movie is a good chance for me to mediate on my dream and the relationship with people around me again.
Kaleil and Tom spent their high school years by dreaming and scheming out their futures. They made their dream a reality and opened Govworks.com, a Web-based firm devoted to helping people deal more efficiently with local governments (it began as a notion to pay parking tickets online). Kaleil is strong individual, a CEO of the company and raises the money, Tom is the technical chief and a much softer-spoken individual, try to keep everybody happy and deal with problems. Kaleil is always enthusiastic for the need for cash and for improving the site. Venture capital comes in by the millions. Kaleil is on C-SPAN, CNN, and magazine cover so a reality in life. Govworks.com soon exploded, going from a one-room office with a tiny staff to over 250 employees and a bankroll of 50 million.
However, like many other Internet firms of their day, Govworks.com was not destined to succeed, and by January of 2001, the company had let nearly all its employees go, and was eventually swallowed up by the large firms in spite of Kaleil’s firmly refusal to loose any one. I do not have enough idea about how they affected the business. We really don't have much idea about the business itself, except for the original pitch. I do not know what's happening, why they're growing so fast and why they fail so quickly.
One thing I can see in the film is that it implies potential problems such as immature readership, launch with the idea, and lack of experience. In the beginning of the movie,
Kaleil goes to Silicon Valley for consulting of the idea of the business. He seems not to pay attention of the advices. The consultant says “The idea is good, but Works has light weight and a very specific meaning in the software world, it refers to a very low end product,” Even though Kaleil seems to understand the man’s candid advice which they did not have any body with startup experience and like the sapient relationship, he does not want to believe his advice. And then immediately, he disregards it. What a strange self confidence! I think he was confused of why he wants to see the consultant. It is not for the confirmation of what he wants to do, but for more helpful and better information to succeed. In addition, I see more of their discussions about raising money and less of the conversations about what features they would include on the web site, how they decided on its design, what the business model for the company was, and little concerned with producing a quality product and so forth.
The most interesting to me is when Personality conflicts between Kaleil and Tom begin leading to some unpleasant consequences. They have different readerships styles and personalities. Tom is the uptight techie tinkering in the shadows with remedial social skills. Kalil is Mr. Charisma with unbounded ambition looking to cinch the big deal and steam roll anybody in his path. A power struggle ensues between Kaleil and Tom. Finally, Tom is fired and is escorted out of the building by security. I have not seen any fired employee is treated like Tom. It is hard to see that their long term friendship might end. Dramatically, a solid friendship remains in reconciliation.
Overall, Startup.com gives me an inside look into the inner workings of not only the company, but the personal lives and thoughts of its founders. In the end I got a great sense of hope that there is more to life than just making profits and that true friends can get through anything and come out on top at the end. Although I wish the documentary would show all the details about why the business failed and what went wrong, it is fascinating documentary to see the life of internet business, Govswork.com until the bubble burst and the process of relationship between two high school buddies.
Kaleil and Tom spent their high school years by dreaming and scheming out their futures. They made their dream a reality and opened Govworks.com, a Web-based firm devoted to helping people deal more efficiently with local governments (it began as a notion to pay parking tickets online). Kaleil is strong individual, a CEO of the company and raises the money, Tom is the technical chief and a much softer-spoken individual, try to keep everybody happy and deal with problems. Kaleil is always enthusiastic for the need for cash and for improving the site. Venture capital comes in by the millions. Kaleil is on C-SPAN, CNN, and magazine cover so a reality in life. Govworks.com soon exploded, going from a one-room office with a tiny staff to over 250 employees and a bankroll of 50 million.
However, like many other Internet firms of their day, Govworks.com was not destined to succeed, and by January of 2001, the company had let nearly all its employees go, and was eventually swallowed up by the large firms in spite of Kaleil’s firmly refusal to loose any one. I do not have enough idea about how they affected the business. We really don't have much idea about the business itself, except for the original pitch. I do not know what's happening, why they're growing so fast and why they fail so quickly.
One thing I can see in the film is that it implies potential problems such as immature readership, launch with the idea, and lack of experience. In the beginning of the movie,
Kaleil goes to Silicon Valley for consulting of the idea of the business. He seems not to pay attention of the advices. The consultant says “The idea is good, but Works has light weight and a very specific meaning in the software world, it refers to a very low end product,” Even though Kaleil seems to understand the man’s candid advice which they did not have any body with startup experience and like the sapient relationship, he does not want to believe his advice. And then immediately, he disregards it. What a strange self confidence! I think he was confused of why he wants to see the consultant. It is not for the confirmation of what he wants to do, but for more helpful and better information to succeed. In addition, I see more of their discussions about raising money and less of the conversations about what features they would include on the web site, how they decided on its design, what the business model for the company was, and little concerned with producing a quality product and so forth.
The most interesting to me is when Personality conflicts between Kaleil and Tom begin leading to some unpleasant consequences. They have different readerships styles and personalities. Tom is the uptight techie tinkering in the shadows with remedial social skills. Kalil is Mr. Charisma with unbounded ambition looking to cinch the big deal and steam roll anybody in his path. A power struggle ensues between Kaleil and Tom. Finally, Tom is fired and is escorted out of the building by security. I have not seen any fired employee is treated like Tom. It is hard to see that their long term friendship might end. Dramatically, a solid friendship remains in reconciliation.
Overall, Startup.com gives me an inside look into the inner workings of not only the company, but the personal lives and thoughts of its founders. In the end I got a great sense of hope that there is more to life than just making profits and that true friends can get through anything and come out on top at the end. Although I wish the documentary would show all the details about why the business failed and what went wrong, it is fascinating documentary to see the life of internet business, Govswork.com until the bubble burst and the process of relationship between two high school buddies.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Summary of Free Culture
INTRODUCTION
“PIRACY”
According to Lord Mansfield, as quoted by the author, piracy is the act of robbing an author’s profits by copying and distributing her work for one’s benefits. Trying to enforce this understanding to the max, the warriors, as the author calls those in charge of supervising the legitimacy of users of somebody else’s works, are arguing that the new generation of Americans are becoming thieves. This, is facilitated, and to certain extent, encouraged, by the development of the internet and other media that make possible copying and distributing creative work. Among those warriors is the NYU law professor Rochelle Dreyfus whose theory states that “if value, then right.” The only legitimate way to use creative work is by having an express permit from the author.
Traditionally, in America, intellectual property has only set the grounds for a richly creative society. Therefore, intellectual property is subservient to the value of creativity. The original intention of copyrights law was to control publishing. Nowadays, the law is trying to regulate publishing and to control creativity as well. According to the author, the law has to differentiate between republishing someone’s work and building upon or transforming that work. It appears as the law is mostly concerned with protecting an industry rather than supporting creativity.
CHAPTER I
“CREATORS”
Among the classical examples of creative people who have built upon somebody else’s work is Walt Disney. He started by copying and incorporating sound techniques used in film in cartoons. Before creating anything new Disney simply added to the work of others. His cartoon “Steamboat Bill Jr.” was a parody of Buster Keaton’s silent film with the same title and song theme. From this parody Mickey Mouse was born. He created something new out of something old. This is the kind of creativity we need to remember and celebrate.
Parodies and building upon previous work is not strange to other cultures and countries. Japan has its Doujinshi; a copycat comic whose purpose is not merely to copy but contribute to the art it copies. By doing so, the original work is spurred and becomes wealthier. This phenomenon would not be possible if Japanese lawyers were preoccupied with maintaining the legality of copyrights.
The concept of property is a very important one for every culture; without the concept of intellectual property no modern society would be able to flourish. Nevertheless, we believe there was nothing wrong with Disney taking from Keaton or the Grimm brothers because trough history people have always built upon the work of other. Scientists conduct research based in the work of others; and they do not pay for the privilege!
We have to keep in mind that free cultures are those who allow and leave room for others to build upon.
“PIRACY”
According to Lord Mansfield, as quoted by the author, piracy is the act of robbing an author’s profits by copying and distributing her work for one’s benefits. Trying to enforce this understanding to the max, the warriors, as the author calls those in charge of supervising the legitimacy of users of somebody else’s works, are arguing that the new generation of Americans are becoming thieves. This, is facilitated, and to certain extent, encouraged, by the development of the internet and other media that make possible copying and distributing creative work. Among those warriors is the NYU law professor Rochelle Dreyfus whose theory states that “if value, then right.” The only legitimate way to use creative work is by having an express permit from the author.
Traditionally, in America, intellectual property has only set the grounds for a richly creative society. Therefore, intellectual property is subservient to the value of creativity. The original intention of copyrights law was to control publishing. Nowadays, the law is trying to regulate publishing and to control creativity as well. According to the author, the law has to differentiate between republishing someone’s work and building upon or transforming that work. It appears as the law is mostly concerned with protecting an industry rather than supporting creativity.
CHAPTER I
“CREATORS”
Among the classical examples of creative people who have built upon somebody else’s work is Walt Disney. He started by copying and incorporating sound techniques used in film in cartoons. Before creating anything new Disney simply added to the work of others. His cartoon “Steamboat Bill Jr.” was a parody of Buster Keaton’s silent film with the same title and song theme. From this parody Mickey Mouse was born. He created something new out of something old. This is the kind of creativity we need to remember and celebrate.
Parodies and building upon previous work is not strange to other cultures and countries. Japan has its Doujinshi; a copycat comic whose purpose is not merely to copy but contribute to the art it copies. By doing so, the original work is spurred and becomes wealthier. This phenomenon would not be possible if Japanese lawyers were preoccupied with maintaining the legality of copyrights.
The concept of property is a very important one for every culture; without the concept of intellectual property no modern society would be able to flourish. Nevertheless, we believe there was nothing wrong with Disney taking from Keaton or the Grimm brothers because trough history people have always built upon the work of other. Scientists conduct research based in the work of others; and they do not pay for the privilege!
We have to keep in mind that free cultures are those who allow and leave room for others to build upon.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
An Army of of David
21st century society challegnes people to be a being multi skilled, diverse, knowledge, creative and unique to achieve sucess in their own ways. By using technology, they could be closed to reach at the request. Technology has moved toward much faster, elaborative, smaller, cheaper and more powerful to our lives than people can expect. Also, technology in our lives has been inevitable and diverse in many different ways such as the military, education, comminity,
science, politic or music, in every where. It has been considered as a very useful, effective, and beneficial tool to accomplish a project in the ways. The book " An Army of David" introduces how technology has been applied to poeple's live and what has happened and what kind of potential power would happen to the future from the past. Moverever, technology is an important way to empower ordinary people to raise their voice up against big organizations.
I came from different culture so that some ideas and ways which the author approached througout the book are interesting and surprising to me. Even though it is not sure how well I understand the intention of the authour, I think one of things the author wants to tell is to suggest people to be ready to know changing technology in society and how it empower and influence people in changes. In this point of vies, reading the book "An Army of David" makes me to realize what is going on the real world with rapidly changing technology and how powerful technology is in our lives. I really agree that techology helpes many people to get their own ways and make it easier to do many kinds differents jobs as well. Therefore, it seems be good warning for me to be aware of the changes coming in my future, Also, there some things I have not noticed changes in technology, but there are much more that I like and
agree in the boook.
science, politic or music, in every where. It has been considered as a very useful, effective, and beneficial tool to accomplish a project in the ways. The book " An Army of David" introduces how technology has been applied to poeple's live and what has happened and what kind of potential power would happen to the future from the past. Moverever, technology is an important way to empower ordinary people to raise their voice up against big organizations.
I came from different culture so that some ideas and ways which the author approached througout the book are interesting and surprising to me. Even though it is not sure how well I understand the intention of the authour, I think one of things the author wants to tell is to suggest people to be ready to know changing technology in society and how it empower and influence people in changes. In this point of vies, reading the book "An Army of David" makes me to realize what is going on the real world with rapidly changing technology and how powerful technology is in our lives. I really agree that techology helpes many people to get their own ways and make it easier to do many kinds differents jobs as well. Therefore, it seems be good warning for me to be aware of the changes coming in my future, Also, there some things I have not noticed changes in technology, but there are much more that I like and
agree in the boook.
Friday, July 17, 2009
Today...
You want to make a difference in your world?
Live a holy life:
- Be faithful to your wife
- Be the one at the office who refuses to cheat
- Be the neighbor who act neighborly
- Be the employee who does the work and does not complain
- Pay your bill
- Do your part and enjoy life
- Don't speak one message and live another
- People are watching the way we act more than
- they are linstening to what we say
- A Gentle Thunder -
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