Aha Moments!

3 Aha Moments
1. The idea of production placement in movies.
2.Censorship in the recording arts industry.
3. The war of the worlds broadcast

Explanations
1. I thought it was interesting how companies learned to adapt to people not viewing commercials by implementing their produces within movies we are watching.
2. I read something along the lines of adding parental advisory rating for concerts and I think that is ridiculous. I feel that it is censoring their first amendment rights.
3. I was surpised to see how influential that broadcast was on society. People are very easily persuaded by the manipulation of our media.

Media Law Cases

The case I will be discussing involves UMG Recordings vs. Veoh Networks. UMG argued that Veoh was liable for copyright infringement against certain uploaded videos. UMG stated that videos were being uploaded and no proper forms of payments were made to the copyright owners. The court ruled in favor of Veoh because they qualified for a "safe harbor" under the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

http://ezproxy.fhda.edu:2051/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=47041528&site=ehost-live
First article mentioned

I feel that UMG had the right to interrogate Veoh for these accusations. Copyright owners deserve being compensated for the work they submit and if Veoh is handling the uploads of these videos illegally, then the prosecutors should be punished.

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Academic Research Project

I have decided to discuss the topic of Shock radio mainly discussing Howard Stern and his disputes with the FCC. I want to show how Stern started his career and developed his certain sense of entertainment and how the FCC challenges his words through censorship.

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

Internet

On Wikipedia there were 12,545 Social Working Websites. The few I have heard of include: Myspace, Facebook, Friendster, and Twitter. All of the others listed I have not heard of. The website I decided to investigate is called Crewster. This website was designed to allow members of the film industry to connect with each other for the purpose of employment. Users give advice and other recommendations based on work experience. I use social networking to keep in connect with friends and relatives. I also use it as a form of email. Websites that I have used before are Myspace and Facebook. I still continue to use Facebook for certain situations. There have been situations where I have been able to keep in contact with old friends from high school when they moved to a different city to attend college. They have helped me out by being able to keep in touch with them.

The Internet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IQFjTnDozo

video length: 2:09
Description: The video introduces the history of the internet prior to its creation. Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web in 1989.
Chapter 10 the Internet
Question: Who designed and created the world wide web?
Answer: Tim Berners-Lee

Favorite movie of 2009

My favorite movie of 2009 has to be Whatever Works starring Larry David. I enjoyed this movie because of the message the movie states and that simply is life is challenging but you can make it by on whatever works for you. It is hard to decide my all time favorite movie but I will say one of my favorite movies recently is Children of Men. I enjoyed how the director filmed this movie and I liked how they portrayed different break outs of chaos as the human society withers away. I previewed both these movies on blu ray for my first viewing.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1178663/ <- Whatever Works

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206634/ <- Children of Men