Copyrights and Then?

Do not copy....

For this week's blogging, it will be Intellectual Property...by John W. Snapper...

Intellectual Property is basically an innovation, artistic or any unique symbol, logo or design used commercially and also widely world recognized by people..It is protected with patents on inventions rights, trademarks on branding for instance "M" for McDonalds, Three Star logo by Mercedes Benz, our kids favorite Mickey mouse is also a protected too..so...try to copy their designs and logo....where would you end up? 

Do you know..  The history of copyright law was introduced by the printing press in the late fifteenth century in England. The reason it was introduced was fairly simply because of the number presses grew tremendously and also publications of books by granting printers a near monopoly in England. The authorities decided to introduce the law to prevent people from copying or stealing ideas from the original publishers and press releases news. During the 1710, act of law established and renewed again by looking at author's ownership of copyright and copyrighted works which is subjected to last fourteen years and the option to renewable scheme if the author was alive upon expiration. The 1710 act established the principles of authors' ownership of copyright and a fixed term of protection of copyrighted works (fourteen years, and renewable for fourteen more if the author was alive upon expiration).

 However looking back, Intellectual property allows people from their very own trademarks or copyrighted hard work to be well protected and gain good benefit from there.....take it for instance, your very own music and once you air it to the world...you are risk to any kind of exposure like people can just copy your version and claim the music is theirs...and you lose your name and fame in just a split seconds... BUT with the intellectual property like copyright...you have the right to sue those who use your music without permission or even copy directly without informing you....


With these copyrighted and trademark, especially property like software, devices...this can greatly increases people's confidence and credibility towards your invention  like for instance the Nintendo WII gaming console...and speaking of copyrights and those laws... people still not aware of it and illegal downloads are widely used everyday without thinking of the copyright laws.... in fact, till today... programs like limwire, e-donkey, bit-torrent that based on P2P (Peer 2 Peer) servers are still heavily used by worldwide.... of course we love to download free of charge stuff but come to think of it..if you are the artist and what if people downloads your song but in illegal and free way... would you earn?...would you feel happy with it?....

In the nutshell, Intellectual Property protects people and a company own ideas/works from being used illegally and maintaining their credibility among people... this also helps people to recognize the branding of a company and a person without getting confused and loosing names because of other party copy your work.. Imagine if there is few Mickey character with slightly different features...you would be thinking which is the original Mickey..or if there is another big M golden arch would you think whether is it Mcdonalds? Credibility for a company and a person is also proved to be an important factor because, it represents your company status among public...without the laws, people would steal and use it without any problems...

The Nature of Networks

For this week's post.. it will be The Nature of Networks by Felix Stadler. (The Nodes and Flows)

We live in the world where everything are connected together. Even your best friend who is currently studying at UK, your cousin is enjoying his vacation at Italy, your parents is having their sweet time at China... we all bound to be connected to each other with one simple word called " Networks". or maybe we could say that human need food to survives other wise we will be dead....and in order to get food there is a source we need to look for eg: Fish comes from the sea and live with other aquatics that depend on each other to survive..or I should call it a food chain reaction.. one depend on another in order to stay alive and get connected in the long run. Reflecting back to Felix Stadler journal that is mainly about "Nodes and Flows", it is said that Digital media acts as an medium that gets us connected anywhere and everywhere whenever we go.. and if I were to think that, without network or the "Nodes & Flows" as mentioned, we would not even born into the world. Everything we do is connected together with beginning and ending. Even a simple phone call would need starting point and ending point to get connected to your loved ones.

AND

whenever there is a connection=there is network

as I read further, I came across to know more than I expected which is the major points that highlighted by Felix Stadler in the Nature of Networks journal.

Interdependency

Every nodes that are connected to each others are called as the communicative process and we are connected to lot of things that is surrounded by our daily life. For example: we wants to live, we need air,...we wants to live, we need food to survive..so whatever you do..its all connected link to the primary source.  The ‘meaning of meaning’ is relationship. (McLuhan; Nevitt, 1972) also does shows that whatever that is being delivers to one nodes to another nodes, the information/data must be clear and well justified too as the data that transfer from one node to another would be meaningful to other people to use it otherwise it would be meaningless.

Change

What do you think of when you hear the word change? Change your new hairstyle? Change to a new computer? or even Change to everybody's favorite Ipad 2?.... or perhaps changing your lifestyle to become a better person? But WAIT!...  Information that flows to one to another may seem unnotifiable because some changes that are too small to be notified but come to think of that, everything you change will effect the whole process of networks afterall....  "One significant changes made, it will changes everything where you would notice it after you done the changes".....and if you were to relate back to the word interdependency like I mentioned earlier.....it would be making more sense that everything is interconnected to form a network or even a piece of information that is going to send out.

Time-boundness 

 Oh wait!... have you realized how important is time in our daily life? We are given to do whatever we want in within 24 hours a day...including your beauty sleeps that everyone would prefer sleeping longer whenever they are force to wake up in the early of the morning especially to go for classes....BUT come to think of it..... networks are the same as well because, information requires to be transfer to one another nodes and if it fails to reach to other nodes, there would be a delay or failure. Take it for instance like the Internet... User key in "www.apple.com" and the data from the IP address user's need to be send instantly to the main server in order to load the webpage in user's computer...but if the data transfer slowly....oh well good luck to the user as it will take ages to load up the webpage...so every information are timely and there goes the word speedy pops up to form a fast networking world...because people wants information to reach them as fast as possible....what do you say?

Differentiation

 How different would you be compare to your friends? Different in personalities? Different in appearance? or Backgrounds? Just like every thing in this world have the differences in order to differentiate from others.... It can be as simple as a car vs motorcycle...what are the differences anyway? Every information is different and what makes the differences are the content that contain in the information that carries from one node to another nodes.

In the nutshell, how network works will be the same but what matters are the information that is carried from one to another that would certainly changes from time to time. That is one thing cannot be avoided but most importantly , we are all linked together and if one of the data were changed or even lost...huge damage will occur. Networks are just like humans.. we depend on each other to survive...so as networks that depends from one node to other or come to think of it, even your favorite social networking like Facebook & Twitter are all connected together in order to work properly for you to post up your latest update & nice looking pictures........ Adios! Comments for improvement...weeee!