What is a Multimedia author? its hard to determine what defines an author in terms of multimedia. Everyone has there own view point which is why it is difficult to determine copyrights laws within society.
Taking an example from the reading is one person writes and preforms a song, but passes away after it has been made into a hit, how do we determine is it is raging against copy right laws if someone wants to pay tribute to the person. Right now since Micheal Jackson's passing, a number of recordings artist are taking his old tracks remixing them and making them into something new as a gift and remembrance of the pop king.
Copy right laws are outrageous, quoting someone on your twitter in all actuality is technically plagiarism due to the fact that it is not properly cited but how many people would you have to penalize for these actions, a ton. Think of all the users on facebook, at one point or another every single one of them have quoted someone in their profile, status, or wall post. How do we determine the difference between the two.
I found the article interesting but in my opinion a multimedia author is someone who has been well established in a number of media forms, books, magazines, websites, blogs,and other significant new media sources. I believe that the only credible grounds for infringement on copyright laws are the ones that have been published and state all information need to process a proper citation.
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I completely agree. As I wrote in my own blog, I don't honestly consider people who write statuses on Twitter or information/comments on the wall on Facebook to be multimedia authors. Therefore, I agree that it's outrageous for a quote on a Twitter status to be considered plagiarism. I mean, should people really have to literally cite a quote on their status? That just seems silly to me.
ReplyDeleteGreat post here Melissa. Now, you suggest at the end that authorship is tied to being established across a number of media forms. So, there would be ways to set a clear path to attain "authorship," as you set it out. It would be a matter of controlling and guiding one's publication in a number of media. I suppose its a question of what "well-established" means. How do we measure that in blogging, for example? It seems that the routes for being well-established in blogging or other new media forms are different from traditional print; and are now altering the routes in print as well (look at the number of books being printed that were originally blogs). I'm not sure what you mean in your last sentence?
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