Week 11 – Tutorial 11 – Copyright

Lecture –

I wasn’t at the lecture this week, however I read the lecture notes and saw that they watched a Youtube video called Cocain Jesus and another short documentary called Steal this film 2. There was a connection to a site that talked about Napster and his P2P invention. The notes discussed his program as a ‘peer-to-peer’ MP3 player downloading site that was shut down due to copyright. The article continues with discussions about how the video cassette recorder came under scrutiny due to the fact that it recorded a show at a particular time to be viewed at a later date, also an infringement on copyright laws. They said that this point was argued during the Napster case. In the end, Napster closed down. The discussion was interesting because it raises the question of where the fine line is between copyright and legal downloading/copying. Perhaps the public is doing illegal copying on an everyday basis without being aware? Why put a recording device on a video cassette if it’s illegal?

Reading –

I couldn’t access the reading for this week.


Tutorial –

There were no tutorial tasks for this week on the website and I couldn’t make the tutorial so I wasn’t in class to participate in any activity they decided to do.