Questions for review, 5/20

Pick a question. Work as a group or as an individual. We'll discuss on Monday. That means your blog post on this will be due the following Monday, 5/27.

Question 1
Take a look at examples of ‘open source’ or ‘open licensing.’ Explore the following links:
Open licensing/Open source
OSI – Open Software Initiative
Free Software Foundation
Proprietary software

What is open source or open licensing mean?
What are the goals of these types of initiatives/projects?
What kinds of benefits are there for users of these projects?
How does open source or open licensing differ from proprietary software?

Question 2
Public Domain

• Make sure you’ve watched the Lawrence Lessig video on TED (we watched this on Wednesday in class)
• Read about "Oral History" on Wikipedia.
• Is oral history "read only" or "read/write"?
  
• Read the article about Alan Lomax's work at the American Folklife Center. Follow some of the links to his recordings of artists in the American South, the Carribean, Ireland, etc. Listen to some of these recordings.
• Look into the influences of some of the bands from the 60s and 70s - The Rolling Stones, Led Zepplin, Cream, etc.
• What kind of conclusions can you make about the influence of public domain on our culture?
• Do copyright rules benefit or hinder the impact of the public domain?
• How do Creative Commons and open licensing/open source address this issue?
  

Question 3
Creative Commons

• Look for resources with Creative Commons mark - Flickr, Youtube, music, book sites, Wikimedia, and any other site of your choice. Here's a head start.
• Here are other places: Jamendo, and Public Library of Science.
• Where (or with what media) do you see the Creative Commons mark most often/least?
• What advantages do you see in using the Creative Commons idea - for the artist? For the publisher? For the consumer?
• Give some examples of Creative Commons use that you found.
• When looking at Wikimedia, you'll notice that many of the items have a GNU free documentation license? What is this?
  

Question 4
Freedom of Speech

• Go back to this site.
• Review what we discussed including cyberbullying, hate speech, censorship, etc. and the impact the of the internet on them
• Read the responsibility piece concerning freedom of speech.
• Here's another good article with multiple perspectives. Take a look at some of the comments below each article. These include some good points.
• Formulate your thoughts on the topic. Should there be more federal regulation of hate speech? More consequences for cyberbullying? A more toned down political debate atmosphere?