Lab Exercise 11

Creative Commons

The purpose of this lab is to examine the different types of media which are available underneath the Creative Commons licensing. To explore this we will look for images regarding home video technology and also examine a documentary about the history of photography.

1. VHS



This photo is was published by Tumi-1983 on the Wikimedia Commons underneath the following license:
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

2. VCR



This photo was published by Liftarn on the Wikimedia Commons underneath the following license:
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

3. DVD



This photo was published by Marcin Sochacki on the Wikimedia Commons underneath the following license:
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

4. TV




This photo was published by Benutzer:Stilfehler on the Wikimedia Commons underneath the following license:
I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide.

In case this is not legally possible:
I grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

5. Camcorder




This photo was published by ChrisHH on the Wikimedia Commons under the following license: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

Photography Documentary

This short film was produced in 1946 as a look at careers which were available in the field of photography and cinematography. It is my hope that this will give a glimpse of what work was like in regards to photography in the mid-twentieth century.



Final Thoughts

This Lab Exercise dealt with the use of the Creative Commons. The Creative commons is something that I was not incredibly familiar with before I began to complete and work on this assignment. While I was a little confused about the initial requirements or expectations of the assignment I was eventually able to determine the necessary course of action.

This assignment opened to me the ideas of Creative Commons and sharing media with people across the world using the Internet. I am impressed by the ideas behind the Creative Commons where normal people can share their ideas and creations with other people simply because they want to. To me this strikes a cord because of the similarity with the open source software movement. Here there is a very much similar philosophy of open sharing of ideas.

Ultimately I believe that the Creative Commons is an excellent venue for the creation of open and free media. This can be shared with the world. At the same time I believe that copyright laws are also a good thing as they protect the rights of artists and the source of their income. Together I believe that these can both coexist as the world becomes smaller and more connected with each other.