The Film After watching the documentary “Steal This Film II,” I was left asking myself, “what about the other side of the story”? As an aspiring journalist, I refuse to be naive to the fact that this film has a…
Category: Copyright
The crossroads that we are facing as journalists is like a jungle before us: uncharted territory. The age of technology hasn’t just affected us or the careers that we’ve chosen, but the entire world and society as a whole.…
Though imitation is considered the highest form of flattery, “Steal This Film II” states that communication itself is essentially an act of copying. The way we communicate with each other online is a series of sharing information to gain new insight, or share…
One of the biggest and most influential quotes I picked up from watching Steal This Film II was from Mark Getty, the CEO of Getty Images — which was, “Intellectual property is the oil of the 21st century.” We now live…
Controlling copyright and putting an end to individuals and companies stealing information, has been a recent problem that will continue to effect many journalists for years to come. Technology has come a long way in the past couple decades, individuals now always…
The issue of illegally copying original content and ideas from the internet examined in the documentary, “Steal this Film II,” is one that I believe contains a lot of gray area,. Any of us with a pulse and Wi-Fi has at…
“Steal This Film” is a documentary about the Catch-22 of the information age. We have infinite information and data at our complete disposal, thanks to the Internet, but as the adage goes, there’s no such thing as a free lunch.…
In the 1500s, information was relatively easy to control. However, when printing was introduced to the world, it truly threatened the control. Now, in the modern world, under the quick development of technologies, the Internet has developed to an extent that…
If the Internet were a movie, it would be an old Clint Eastwood film full of lawless Western towns, final frontiers and Cowboys and Indians Native Americans battling out for ownership of the watering hole. As Adam Schwarz, one of the…
As children we imitate and model our actions after someone we look up to; this idea of copying never changes as we grow up. In order to be social we are taught to make connections and communicate. “Steal This Film…
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