Post Two Copyright, Creative Commons and Piracy.

Copyright, Creative Commons and Piracy.

Task One
In your own words define and describe each of these aspects.

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Copyright is a Legal right (Law in most countries) and you can break this Legal right (law) by committing a crime called Piracy.

Piracy is a crime of using something that does not belong to you for your own personal gain.To stop piracy you can use Creative Commons which is a site where you can find things you need with no copyright infringement issues.

Copyright Laws:

Further information on Copyright. Copyright means if you find “something” on the internet that you would like to use in a newspaper for example you would need to contact the creator of that “something (image)” and ask if you could use it in your newspaper or alternatively you could look on “www.creativecommons.org.nz” to look for “something (image)” which has already allowed you to share it. If you do not do one of these two steps and you use this “image” without permission that would be classified as piracy which is agents the law in many countries

Creative Commons.

All or most of the information under this heading is from “www.creativecommons.org.nz/licences/licences-explained/” I do not own any of this information.

Here is a description of each of the Creative Commons copyright licences. They are free for anyone to use. You can also download a brochure which explains the New Zealand licences and read more about the Creative Commons licensing approach on the Creative Commons internationalwebsite.

ATTRIBUTION

creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz

This licence lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation.

ATTRIBUTION-NONCOMMERCIAL

creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/nz

This licence lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially with credit to you (their new works must also be non-commercial).

ATTRIBUTION-SHAREALIKE

creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/nz

This licence lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.

ATTRIBUTION-NONCOMMERCIAL-SHAREALIKE

creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/nz

This licence lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.

ATTRIBUTION-NO DERIVATIVES

creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/nz

This licence allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.

ATTRIBUTION-NONCOMMERCIAL-NO DERIVATIVES

creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/

This licence is the most restrictive of our six main licences, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.

Piracy.

The unauthorized reproduction or use of a copyrighted Item e.g. a movie or book.

You can be charged with piracy if you share or copy something that is protected by the copyright law(s).
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Task Two
Next you need to discuss how each of these legal, ethical and moral considerations are related.

All three thing of Copyright, Creative commons and Piracy are related in some way for example if you are doing piracy you are breaking copyright and to not break copyright you have to be using the creative commons layout, and by using creative commons you are not committing the criminal act of piracy.

Further depth if you want to or think you can break copyright without doing the criminal act of piracy you are wrong any breach of any creative commons licence is agents the law in certain country's and can be a serious offence which may lead to jail time. 
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Task Three
Next you will need to write a brief case study on the controversy surrounding the online file sharing/storage service megaupload and the new file sharing/storage service www.mega.co.nz

This case study primarily involves you discussing issues regarding copyright law and piracy to do this you may draw from following points, to start you off:

1) How copyright law has been breached which = Piracy & Unethical and immoral behavior  
2) How copyright law has been worked around? Is there a grey area?
3) Megaupload was shut down. Who are the significant players in this scenario?
4) How did/do both sites work?
5) Are there other sites that operate in a similar way that have or have not been shut down?

The copyright law of Megaupload was breached as they did not encrypt their files to an extent on where it was impossible to see what that file way and if that file was breaching copyright infringement. Mega has found a way to work around the copyright infringement and piracy acts by encrypting their files so they are practically impossible to read so they do not know what that file contains and if it is breaching the copyright laws or not.When Megaupload was shut down the successor Mega was a significant player as they have gained most if not all of the Megaupload users which was proven when within the first 24 hours of Mega.co.nz being up over 1,000,000 users had registered as well as 60 completed uploads per second. both websites worked with encryption files but only one encryption file was successful as mega can not un-encrypt what they have encrypted 

Post four Asset & File Management

You will need to explain how asset management and file management are applied in the development of digital media outcomes.
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Asset management is big part to a digital media outcome it can make or break a project. In this case Asset management is helping us create out gingerbread man (the image on the left) to do so we used the asset management  list (image on the right) to help create and tweak out gingerbread man. The image on the left has armature (in this case the bones of our gingerbread man) when the armature is in the correct places you can parent it to the gingerbread body so you can actually move the body parts e.g. the arms and legs, and not just have a big lifeless body shape.

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File management is also a key factor to the creation of anything on blender so items are easy to open and find for example i have Three folders in my INM folder named blender, blogger and relative images everything in blender goes into a sub folder which is named models for my blender models or animation walk for my rendered animation walk which is 58 images. i also used a walk cycle file which went into my relative images file as it is not a model or a animated walk it is a image to help me create my animation walk as it has the outline of the shape the armature needs. An example of a non appropriate file management would be something like 1 folder in another folder inside another folder which means 4 different folders inside each other which would be time consuming and a waste of your own time towards the work that you could already have completed by the time you have open your final file. below is an example of simple file management

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For this task you will need to discuss the importance of effective and appropriate asset management and file management in the development of digital media outcome.

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The importance of asset and file management varies depending on the users needs. The asset management is important as it controls the way a application works take blender for example it will not work without assets, as you need assets to help you project get pieced together as you can select small and important particles with ease on the asset management list then you can move them to where they are needed but with bigger particles you can select them on the main screen as they are clickable.

File management is a key factor to any digital media outcome as it helps you store your work which you will need to complete the standard (outcome).File management is used in various ways such as .zip, .mp3, .mov, etc. Making sure you have the right file format is needed as it can corrupt you work if it is saved as a wrong file format for example if you save a blender file as a different program it will not open as blender used a specific file format to be open by that program, When opening these files make sure you are using the correct program e.g. you want to used windows media player(.mov, .mp4, .mp3 .avi)and  but you use the VLC media player(.vlc) instead that Will work but may change the quality of the video and media files attached to the video and or music file. File management is not just file formats(the way you save files with the .***) It is also the way you store your files in folders. Folder management is a key factor to File management as when you have simple and clean folder management it will help you with file management as it keeps .mp3 or .mov folders together instead of in different places. this works wonderfully when you have an assessment due you store everything related to that assessment and then it is simple and easy to find. 

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