Week 5 Post 1

Giving (Intellectual) Props

This week's reading about intellectual property, open educational resources, and digital footprint has left me feeling overwhelmed. These three topics which are seemingly interrelated and of equal value have me questioning my time in grad school. How often have I used an image with out giving attribution correctly? How much of my data has been archived or exploited? How much of digital footprint is silly retweets, likes, and shares?

When first reading about Intellectual Property my first thought went to a popular book that came out in 2017 called "Milk & Vine" that I recognized from this video. I went to Reddit to see how this book and its content played into copyright, fair use, and creative commons since 2017. Check out what they had to say below:

YouTube, Copyright, Milk and Vine as Precedent
byu/juniperlee9 inNoSleepOOC

Drew Gooden the creator of the original video "Book of Stolen Content Becomes #1 Bestseller"added an update 1 year after posting the video and stated: 

2018 UPDATE: The authors have now started selling the books with a couple pages of credit in the back. This was not the case for the first couple months of the book being available and it wasn't until they received public backlash that they decided to take like 4 hours to compile the list. But, better late than never I guess. Good on them for doing that. This video served it's purpose, and is kind of moot at this point. You can still watch it though if you want.

Upon looking at the description, you can see that Drew makes a point to attribute any resources that he had not already mentioned verbally in the video:

Overall this discussion provides great information and insight into the discussion of intellectual property. My favorite part? All the information was found using social media tools we've discussed so far!