copyright, authorship, ownership and indigenous concerns

1. updates
• schedule: updated
• blog post 4 due friday
• final project: start!!
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3. copyright laws-emphasis
• author-centric
• originality
• incentive to create
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4. authors, authorship, & power
• author figure key to understanding
power imbalance
• privileged
• ‘subjects’ ignored/erased/treated as
objects
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6. Edward Curtis collection
• 40,000+ photographs of Native peoples
• 10,000+ recordings of Native speech and
music
• Produced the ‘Curtis Indian Picture Opera’
throughout the U.S.
• Directed In the Land of the Headhunters, an
inventive, seminal film documentary (1914)
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7. creator, author = owner
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8. “The opposite of
a free culture is a
‘permission
culture’—a culture
in which creators
get to create only
with the
permission of the
powerful, or of
creators from the
past.”
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9. legal
technological
corporate
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10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk862BbjWx4
copyright history + digital age
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14. language, rituals, stories, places....
the meaning people make....
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15. norms = actions, values, practices....
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16. http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=uPzneao_3rQ&list=TLNdQxlBUAwpDlx3Y3Q4DjmSY5hfTe-ySj
copyright + cultural knowledge
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17. cultural protocols
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23. blog post 4
• discuss issues of access, authorship,
ownership, privacy etc from the past two
weeks
• choose an image from link
• follow its travels: find info
• discuss its travels, creation, use etc in
relation to class topics from this Unit
• site class materials
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