Wednesday, January 25, 2012

House of Bryant Publications, L.L.C. vs. A&E Television Networks

On December 11, 2004 an episode of "The City Confidential" aired, including a 12-second clip of the song "Rocky Top." The scene the song was included in was a football game at the University of Tennessee. The marching band was playing the song; however, you could only hear about twelve seconds of the song because of all of the noise taking place in the scene. The House of Bryant, the administrators for the song, sued A&E Television Network for copyright infringement because of the song. A&E Television Network was eventually found guilty of copyright infringement and they had to give up all of the money that they had made on that episode along with $150,000.



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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Internet Safety

Internet safety is using common sence to look out for things that could put you in a bad situation or get you in trubble. The three most important things the remember when online is not to give out personal information; this makes it easier for people to find you and steal from you. Don't type anything that you wouldn't say in public, and don't post any innapropriate pictures of yourself or anyone else because that is illegal. I've learned that no matter what you delete or how good you hide things on your computer, that there are so many differend ways in which those files can be found. So you always need to be careful when doing things on the internet because you never know what could happen or what you could be accussed of. A way that i could improve using the internet is by not having as much personal information out there.

Monday, January 9, 2012

Feed Readers

Over that past few days I have been working with FeedDemon and Google Reader. They were both easy to use and made subscribing to sites much faster, but FeedDemon stood out the most for me. With FeedDemon I could look up any website I wanted too and I could subscribe to it. Google Reader, however, wasn't so easy because when I would go to look up something I would get sites that I've never seen before or it wasn't exactly what I wanted; so it felt as if my search took longer than it should have.