Lessig and POL readings week of 10/16

Free Culture 213-234 "Should Information be owned?"

Personally if i was a musician, i would believe that information should be own because you obviously want to get paid for doing something that is your job. A lot of people believe that the music should be free and take the information, such as music, free from the internet through internet sharing websites and also if songs become leaked. But I wonder if anyone ever thing how songs are their job and they need to get paid somehow, while concerts might be the money maker, the albums do help pay artist a bit too. So should information be owned, yes, because everyone has to make a living, even if they just make songs for a living that is the artist job. Everyone would get mad if they took a photograph or video that becomes well known and someone else steals it and make a profit off it while you do not.

Then again, some artists give music away for free, like U2 did recently because they were afraid no one was going to buy their album, it helped opened up new fans and could help their concert revenue.

POL The Global Flow of Visual Culture

This chapter basically is about how brands and other images become known globally around the world through the use of advancing medias. This is because images use to be spread through the use of television and print based mediums, as well as the cinema. But now days, television is now world wide broadcasting as well as the radio, because it is easy to share something from on place in the world to the next in an instant. Some brands in the world even become well known such as Nike and Cocacola and McDonalds through the use of television and the internet. Movies even play a role with brands popping up because if you notice, in some film shots in the screen, a little coca cola product could be visualized in the fridge or counter as a little advertising in important movies that the company know that people will watch. Such as the appearance of Burger King in Iron Man.