PORTFOLIO 3
For my third paper, I researched a number of academic, public, and digital libraries, examined their use of digital technology, and compared these uses to one another. I attempt to demonstrate the varying degrees these libraries have taken to incorporate digital technology into their collections. Rather than comment on my own positive or negative take on these changes, I make the opinions of others known to the reader so that he/she can evaluate these libraries and their decisions for themselves. As college students, tax-payers, and internet users, this is topic is relevant to all of us. With my paper, I attempt to make readers aware of the important and relevant changes that are occurring in all types of libraries across the country.
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2) Elementary Schools and Ebooks
3) Plagiarism and Jane Goodall
Paper:
Ebooks and Libraries: How the Digital Age is Changing the Way We Borrow
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PORTFOLIO 2
In this paper, our group focused on the popular practice in modern music known as “song sampling.” This practice has become increasingly popular in recent years in all genres of music. Song sampling is a controversial practice because it uses pre-existing works in the creation of a new work. While some may consider song sampling to be an infringement of copyright, others believe that song sampling is perfectly legal because it supports artistic creativity. The precedents set by court cases revolving around song sampling have varied from case to case. The court cases provided by Paul Goldstein in his book, Copyright’s Highway, supports the use of song sampling in composing, as Goldstein seems to be in favor of more open copyright laws. The text by Siva Vaidhyanathan also supports more open copyright laws by arguing that strict laws stifle creativity. This paper aims to persuade readers to support song sampling through Goldstein and Vaidyanathan’s positions. I hope that the collaborative effort put into this paper is evident as well, as it is a large reason as to why the paper is, in my opinion, a successful one.
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PORTFOLIO 1
In my paper, I attempt to argue that, while we tend to think that laws serve to protect and help us, the late development of trademark laws has had a positive effect on book history. Had these laws been developed when trademarks were first used, the trademarks used by the printing house Fust and Schöffer and the publishing house Ticknor and Fields could not have been imitated by other houses without legal ramifications. This would have changed book history unquestionably; the use of printer’s devices and book bindings are a way of identifying a product with its house of origin became popular through the imitation of the houses mentioned, who were successful partly as a result of their trademarks. So, had trademark law been developed earlier in book history, these identifiers would not be so prominent in the publishing industry today. When reading my paper, the focus should be on the trademarks created by the houses mentioned above as well as the effect trademark law would have had on the popularity of these trademarks.
Blog Posts:
1) Authorship and Its Importance
2) Watermarks and Their Impact on Copyright: A Zero Draft Response
3) Technology Makes Jobs Obsolete
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