I have been working with podcasts for some time now. In fact, I negotiated with the vendors hosting OCLS' first podcasts. There are a couple that I sync to my iPod on a daily basis...mostly talk radio that airs while I am at work.
On major drawback that I have encountered with my iPod is that Recorded Books doesn't have a download agreement with Apple, hence I have to download to my computer and download manually to the Windows Media Player on my cell phone. Short of getting Apple and Recorded Books to the table, the bonus MP3 player that is on its way will take care of my downloadable audiobook dilemma.
Thanks Tom!
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Copyright and Digital Technologies
Since the first VCR hit the shelves, the recording industry has wrestled with this issue. Technology had finally made amateur duplication of copyrighted AV materials easy in inexpensive. That was the mid-70's.
Thirty years later they are still fighting this game...and will probably lose, if they haven't already. Not because the technology is so easy--heck, it has been for years. The battle will be lost because of lack of enforcement particularly in foreign (non-US and EU) countries. The availability of major motion pictures on the streets of Hong Kong before a movie is even released attests to a big gaping hole in enforcement. On the music side, Napster is now legit, but has been replaced by Limewire and a host of other sites based outside the US. The RRIA is trying to prosecute, but with only limited success.
Job's article on DRM (and iTunes specifically) cites the ready availability of DRM-free music out there, and advances the position that music rightsholders secure royalties at sale, and unwrap online music from duplication restriction.
US and European law has actually stayed fairly up-to-date with technology advancements, though much was based on legal decisions in cases that were brought to court. It is naive to think that the rest of the world is going to react with much respect to copyright. In the past, that wasn't much of a problem because there wasn't much of a market there. That is all changing now.
It is going to be interesting.
Thirty years later they are still fighting this game...and will probably lose, if they haven't already. Not because the technology is so easy--heck, it has been for years. The battle will be lost because of lack of enforcement particularly in foreign (non-US and EU) countries. The availability of major motion pictures on the streets of Hong Kong before a movie is even released attests to a big gaping hole in enforcement. On the music side, Napster is now legit, but has been replaced by Limewire and a host of other sites based outside the US. The RRIA is trying to prosecute, but with only limited success.
Job's article on DRM (and iTunes specifically) cites the ready availability of DRM-free music out there, and advances the position that music rightsholders secure royalties at sale, and unwrap online music from duplication restriction.
US and European law has actually stayed fairly up-to-date with technology advancements, though much was based on legal decisions in cases that were brought to court. It is naive to think that the rest of the world is going to react with much respect to copyright. In the past, that wasn't much of a problem because there wasn't much of a market there. That is all changing now.
It is going to be interesting.
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Week 8 musings
I really enjoyed this week's agenda. I have been interested in digital rights (particularly web image) management for a while and this gave me the opportunity to delve a bit into Creative Commons. I already had a flickr account (ajcalabrese) and uploaded some 'Creek shots and applied copyright terms. Cool.
Want to see more, you'll have to check out my account!
I also spent more time than I probably should have with protopage. I can imagine all kinds of uses for it.
Check it out...again the account name is ajcalabrese.
It's hard to believe that there are only a couple more weeks left to this program. I have been working with my learning buddy Reshard, and the tech staff has been helping the rest of the staff with some of the trickier parts. It's been a great learning experience.
More Web 2.0
Tom's suggestions were pretty cool...especially Trainco and dogster.
I have been a little lax with quantifying my workouts and am going to give Trainco a shot.
My dog Louis Vuitton now has a blog on dogster. For me, it led me to some info about his hair loss. (just like his dad.)
There's a couple web 2.0 apps out there that I really like. One is at the USA Track and Field site, called "America's Running Routes," it gives you an easy way to chart running/walking courses, and provides mile marks and total distance as well as course elevation changes.
Then, (the good part) you can post your routes for others to find via search by city, zip code etc.
This is great for people who travel. Check it out at www.usatf.org/routes/
I have been a little lax with quantifying my workouts and am going to give Trainco a shot.
My dog Louis Vuitton now has a blog on dogster. For me, it led me to some info about his hair loss. (just like his dad.)
There's a couple web 2.0 apps out there that I really like. One is at the USA Track and Field site, called "America's Running Routes," it gives you an easy way to chart running/walking courses, and provides mile marks and total distance as well as course elevation changes.Then, (the good part) you can post your routes for others to find via search by city, zip code etc.
This is great for people who travel. Check it out at www.usatf.org/routes/
Hard to believe it's week 7 already!
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