Copyright allows the owners of IP to control, set and monitor whether it can be shared or charged for and Reproduction Rights

Reproduction rights are whether credit has to be given or how it can be distibuted example-printed, modified, or downloaded

Copyrights and IP are very important ownership categories that should be respected and ideally no one should “take” another’s work and place or claim it as their own without checking what license it has.  This is like when we all learned in grade school not to plagiarize and give credit where credit is due. This protects the feelings and monetary well-being of the creator.  My responsibility is to appropriately credit everything I borrow and place online for others. I know I can decide how I wish my content to be used by registering it with the patent office or take steps like watermarking or posting lower-quality images until someone requests full access to it and work out the details with them.  Everything online usually has some Metadata with it that can be traced back to the original source.  

Some site content such as Wikipedia have content that has been shared to it and can be modified or updated and most of the content and images are shareable.  This acts like an editable encyclopedia public resource for research, the code and how many times the page has been edited can be found at the top under tools and view history and images can be filtered by type of use in your browser, usually Wiki ones appear first.

The rest of the web content is owned or created by someone and is a challenge to protect just like the little house owned by Arther Dent in the Hitchhiker’s Guide by Douglas Adams.  Not only does an alien race want to destroy Earth, but they also want to demolish this house to put an intergalactic freeway there and this can be used to symbolize the uphill battle creators face protecting their assets.  When someone violates a copyright, the owner has to sue, write a cease-and-desist notice, work-out a fee for use, or otherwise determine how to respond when they see or are notified their content is being used against their will, in some manner other than intended. Chapter 8 points out that H2G2 (Hitchiker’s Guide) contains contributions too and has been “compiled and recompiled many time over the years, under different editorships.”

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Both the documentary “Hyperland” and the “Hitchhiker’s Guide” by Douglas Adams are two amazing examples of digital media that I definitely recommend researching hand in hand.  “Hyperland” from the 1990’s was clearly ahead of it’s time by predicting amazing things from cell phone commonality and 3D television/VR to hypertext and smart fridges!

INSERT IMAGE FROM SECOND LIFE VR “my avatar from Second Life sitting at a PenCol PC in World.”

  What makes it so enjoyable is that it breaks the fourth wall quite a bit and there’s plenty of narrative interaction, and fun characters and visuals to entertain the viewer.  There is even a customizable AI butler and plenty of computer error humor to keep everyone who has used a computer enthralled. It contains and explains other technology like the “mouse” for example to find information with our fingertips.  My favorite interview was when Robert Winter was discussing waves and shapes (and since listening flows along with life and takes time) he compared the way Beethoven seems like the 20-year growth of a mighty oak tree compressed into sound.   Could this have been yet another prediction?  I believe it could be, because recently a device was created to attach and listen to plants and mushrooms electricity levels. I know I would truly love to experiment with and create a chorus with it from https://plantwave.com/.

This story begins with a house that is about to be destroyed in order to add a superhighway which is a ludicrous idea to it’s owner and main character Arthur Dent.   This quickly progresses to him leaving with his “alien” friend Ford Prefect on a mission to stop Earth from being destroyed by the Vorgons and a gigantic quest to find answers about the meaning of life and the universe.   Like the other documentary this was also way ahead of it’s time, because he was given a Babel fish which translates any language into your ear, much like current apps and translators do now, but this story was just getting published around 42 years ago.  The book also has a lot of humor, bad poetry (which could “supposedly” kill) and advice, such as keep a towel with you in case it is needed for almost any emergency, such as a spontaneous Kung Fu fight.  Don’t panic when reading this book as your mind expands…just let it hitchhike to different galaxies and afterwards go have your own adventures!

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