Girl Talk: Fair Use

Copyright laws seem to be very strict in the view of the public. You hear horror stories about family’s losing everything due to the use of something that wasn’t legally theirs, such as illegal music downloads. Girl Talk is a famous mashup artist who is known for his rare style and performance. Girl Talk makes a living by snipping different parts of songs to create one mega song and albums. He performs theses song around the world and has a surprisingly large fan base. With this being said, from the view of the law, what Girl Talk is doing could be seen as copyright infringement due to the use of other artist work. The fair use doctrine allows an excuse for the people who are on the verge of copyright infringement. Fair use is broken down into four parts, purpose and character, nature of work, amount used, and the effect upon potential market. Girl talk relied on this doctrine to continue what he was doing. Transformative use essentially states that the more you creative “transform” the copyright you are taking, the stronger case you have for fair use. In girl talks case he transforms the songs completely with different beats, riffs, and other aspects that were once absent from the song. His work is in jeopardy due to people higher up finding out about his mashup style. I personally don’t think that Girl Talk is breaking any copyright laws, due to the short clip use of songs and the transformability he implies. I think artist look for copyright cases to make an extra dollar on the upcoming artist.

Web Interactivity

When it comes time to build a website it’s crucial to know the importance of interactivity in the web design process. Interactivity can be defined as the dialogue that occurs between a human being and a computer. Interaction within a website crucial to keep users coming back because it gives the user a sense of affiliation. The article I examined for this blog, “New Web Trends: immerse interaction style”, gave me great insight about different ways to raise the level of interaction on a website. The article relates to internet communication perfectly because we are in the process of building websites and it gives tips on how to do so correctly and effectively. It also gave me great insight about the animation and transition side to creating a website. Such aspects as animated notifications, revealing information, and collapsing forms and menus can be seen as interactive to the user. I think that the best way to measure web activity is to focus on the many aspects of the website and the easiness of the functions used. The article also covers a term called Webgraphics and how it can be used to measure interactivity. It measures user activity by performing an action in route to getting access to a full story. This action could a simple click or other actions such as typing in a word. When users perform this task it keeps track of the amount of clicks received. I think this process would be very beneficial when creating a website because it gives instant feedback of the amount of users viewing different aspects of the website.

http://thenextweb.com/dd/2015/05/20/new-web-trends-immersive-interaction-design/#gref

"Information and Networks"

The law that I mast agree with is Reed`s Law. The reason that I think this law best fits is his use of affiliation. He compares social media to his law to show us proof. Social media networks that rise to fame is usually connected to the large number of followers the network has. Many of these different networks have maintenance teams working 24/7 to make sure that the network is running correctly and also a team working to improve the usability of it. The law is also best fit in my opinion because many groups on social media networks advertise other networks or groups and gain attention to their cause. This shows that affiliation to a social media site or any other network is the key to success. Having more people on a network can lead to more diversity and different perspectives which ultimately leads to better feedback on ways to make the website better and continue the success of it. Five years from now I feel like we will receive information similar to the way we do today. Of course there will be technological advances bit how far can it grow? The speed that we receive information on networks will increase over the next five years, and the devices in which we receive this information will also continue to improve. There is always a better way to do something and people figure these ways out. The most drastic change I could see in the future is people using less hand held devices. Google is already working on a new device called google glasses. These glasses allow one to take pictures, make calls, and other functions hand held devices provide. That's the goal that many companies are trying to reach now. The easier the better in the producers eye.

"Online Identity"

The article about online identity really improved my perception on the subject and how it affects everyone. Now days many employers do research on the people they are looking to hire via social media. Social media gives users the advantage. One can post about anything and create the public image they long for. People often abuse their right on social media by creating something they’re not. The article stated that before modern equipment used to uncover false profiles came about many people could hide their true identity to trick other internet users. Many social media websites have filters now that can sort through profiles and decide whether the person is “dogging” the system or not. With these advancing technologies to uncover fraud take place one is left to create an authentic profile or risk the threat of profile termination. In my opinion, I think authenticity is more important than anonymity when creating online profiles. Facebook imposed a 1 billion dollar photo-sharing service with Instagram to strengthen the process. This allows for connectivity between the two social media websites and a strengthened process of uncovering falsified profiles. With this being said, users are forced to use real names that are connected through emails to create profiles. It also helps put an end to “creepers” that create fake profiles and go under the radar and the unknown true of the credibility of profiles. I do think that advertisements targeting certain people through profile ingredients gets creepy. But users have to take the good, along with the bad.