Dtc356 04.03

updates

• schedule: updated

• blog post 4 due friday

• final project: start!!

Thursday, April 3, 14


copyright laws-emphasis

• author-centric

• originality

• incentive to create


authors, authorship, & power

• author figure key to understanding power imbalance

• privileged

• ‘subjects’ ignored/erased/treated as objects



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)


creator, author = owner


“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.”


legal technologicalcorporate


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk862BbjWx4

copyright history + digital age







language, rituals, stories, places....

the meaning people make....


norms = actions, values, practices....Thursday, April 3, 14

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPzneao_3rQ&list=TLNdQxlBUAwpDlx3Y3Q4DjmSY5hfTe-ySj

copyright + cultural knowledge






cultural protocols







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


Dtc356 04.03

Education