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Week 5

 I would want to start by sayin that I agree about copyright getting a bit out of control to say the least. DMCA in Youtube for example, they would take away all credit for the effort that was put in by the video makers, editors and actors alike, even if a music clip of less than two seconds was used, all the monetization, that would've gone to the channels owner, would then go into the pockets of whoever owns the song and probably a small cut of that to the DMCA enforcers as well. Taking away all credit for a fraction of a sec of copyrighted music, is not right, what should be done instead is, if a fraction of an entire video, movie or other type of video media that is copyrighted was used, then the credit should be just as equally shared. Nobody would say it's fair to get full credit for having done 0,1% of the entire project. Thus brings me to the fact that copyrights are only done for financial reasons, greedy ones at that. Under no circumstances should it be allowed that h

Week 4

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  CHALLENGES OF THE GLOBAL INFORMATION SOCIETY Himamen had written 10 global trends that were strong in progress since 2004 of which some would be finalized in 2010. The trends would increase the demand for care of welfare, make innovative jobs more needed and popular than ever and so would the need for education and experts rise as well, as more developed countries cannot rely on routine jobs, which get then pushed onto cheaper countries such as China and India. Himanen then goes to show the analysis of the economic models that are used around the globe. Silicon Valley model - The American neo-liberalist model (the predominant model) Singapore model - The Asian staterun model (emerging model) Finnish model - The European combination of the information society and the welfare state As the world is having trouble dealing with the cons of their models, in the analysis he specifically revised the European model into something that also supports the growth of welfare. The objective being