Week 6 Lecture Notes

This weeks Lecture was presented by Josh again and mainly based around consumption and production and specifically mobile content.

We covered how initially media was shared with the public primarily through the cinema, be it movies or newsreels before a feature, something i've only seen in movies and on The Simpsons. I was thinking about how if not everyone had a TV how it would be having 'neighbourhood viewings' in my lounge room and how frustrated they would get with me flipping through channels and yelling at MTV.

The fan films were something that I found quite entertaining, being a fan 28 days Later ( and weeks, being that Rose Byrne is my future wife) I've always hoped someone would carry on the franchise. The re-cuts we were shown of The Shining and Mary Poppins were fun, and similar to some re-cut trailers a friend of mine put before his short film ( '$quid' now a feature to be released soon, website here) where Tom Hanks' 'Big' was presented as a Thriller/Horror and Home Alone shown with Kevin ( McCaulley Culkin) as the bad guy, terrorising a couple of men in his neighbourhood.

In the tutorial itself we were looking at intellectual property and who owns the rights to the media that we choose to post on social networking sites , video and picture sites. In one of my previous posts I said that I'm not terribly worried about the information or photos of myself posted online but I was still interested in finding out who has the rights to use this information and photos.

Facebook for example state this in their Statement of Rights and Responsibilities;

For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos ("IP content"), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook ("IP License"). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.

A link to the entire Statement of Rights and Responsibilities - http://www.facebook.com/terms.php and also their Privacy Policy - http://www.facebook.com/policy.php