Slough of Despond 5
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The document describes a contemporary interpretation of John Bunyan's 'The Pilgrim's Progress', focusing on characters Mip and Mop who are concerned about copyright issues related to embedding media on their blogs. An official warns them about the legality of embedding unlicensed content, prompting Mip to suggest they protect their own works with copyright notices. The narrative highlights the challenges creators face in navigating copyright laws in the digital age.
Slough of Despond 5
- 1. geniwate.com/admin/mipandmop Concept based on The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan, and written for Contemporary Media Work Practices, a course at RMIT University (www.rmit.edu.au) c. geniwate 2012-5 Slough of Despond 5
- 2. Mip and Mop were sitting out the front of their edifices, serving lemonade to people who were dropping by, sometimes several people every day. There was quite a lot of interest. ‘I think I really have built TBTCTW’, Mip boasted. ‘I don’t think anyone has ever combined astrophysics and graffiti before’, Mop observed. ‘Well done.’
- 3. Just then, an official-looking man in a suit with a briefcase turned up. He started sniffing around Mip’s building. ‘Looking for anything in particular?’ Mip asked. ‘Just try my blog’s search engine -‘ ‘Ministry of Blogging’, the man announced, and presented his card. I’m looking for persons and people breaking the law’. ‘Nothing like that going on here’, Mip replied smugly. ‘Try Vanity Fair’.
- 4. ‘Looking for embedders. Any embedders here?’ Mip had never heard of a crime called embedding. She asked the man for an explanation, and was soon given to understand that embedding any media that did not expressly give copyright permission to do so was potentially illegal, and if the media was from a big corporation , they could possibly take her to court. Mip immediately thought of Mop, who had been embedding music videos in his blog, not to mention the whole corpus of Duran Duran. She waived at the man. ‘I think I saw an embedder go - thatta way. When she’d seen him off, she rushed across to Mop and pursuaded him to remove almost everything he’d embedded.
- 5. ‘You’ll have to ask them for permission’, Mip advised. ‘They’ll never even take the time of day to read my email’, Mop replied morosely. Unfortunately, Mip thought that might well be true. ‘You know’, Mip replied, we should protect our own work too. We should start putting copyright notices on our stuff, it’s only fair. We’re all making content, we don’t want it ripped off.’ So she went off to the search engine, and found out about copyright licenses, and made one for herself, and another for Mop. Another piece of coral appeared.
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