Copyright Issues and Web Evolution (PDF)

# Copyright Issues There are millions of pieces of information that we can get from the internet. Some of this information are free but others are not. They are protected by a copyright law. ## What is Copyright? Copyright is a protection given to the owner of the rights in an original work such...

# Copyright Issues There are millions of pieces of information that we can get from the internet. Some of this information are free but others are not. They are protected by a copyright law. ## What is Copyright? Copyright is a protection given to the owner of the rights in an original work such as books, musical works, films, paintings, and other works, and computer programs. This original work is called intellectual property which is protected under Republic Act 8293 known as the "Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines". ## Copyright Infringement This happens when the copyrighted work is used by other people without permission of the author or copyright holder. Any person who is infringing the right protected work would be liable under the law. An example of this is the case of M.Y. antinental Trading Corporation (MITC), Tedwin T. Uy, Allianz Marketing and World Wide Web and Drinting ## World Wide Web It is also known as WWW or W3 introduce by Tim Berners-Lee. It consists of different pages that are formatted in a markup language called HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) and linked to each other that contain text, graphics, multimedia files, hyperlinks and etc. ### Web 1.0 The first development of World Wide Web where web pages are static. It also known as flat or stationary page and it cannot be manipulated by users. ### Web 2.0 It is a dynamic web page where users can interact with page like creating a user account, posting comments, uploading files and images, and others. Examples: Blog sites, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube #### Features of Web 2.0 1. **Folksonomy** - users can classify and arrange information by adding tag or label. Pound sign (#) is used in Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social networking sites. Example in tagging on Facebook: #TeamKawayan, #Single 2. **Rich User Experience** - users can have high interaction with the content of the page and can achieve levels of expertise. 3. **User Participation** - users can put content on their own in the web page like comment, evaluation, and etc. 4. **Long Tail** - a site that offers services and brings individuals and businesses into selling different goods and commodities such as shopping sites like OLX, Lazada, Shopee, Zalora and others. 5. **Software as a service** - users can subscribe to a software when they need it instead of purchasing them. 6. **Mass Participation** - sharing of diverse information through universal web access. ### Web 3.0 The Semantic Web A new paradigm in web interaction extension of led by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) where it provides a framework that allows data to be shared and reused. ## C. Bookmarking Sites A website that allows you to share and store internet bookmarks, articles, posts, blogs, images and others. Examples: Pinterest, StumbleUpon, Dribble The image shows a screenshot of the Pinterest homepage. It has a search bar, a menu bar, several images and a follow button. ## D. Media Sharing A website that allows you to share and store multimedia files such as video, photos and music. Examples: Instagram, YouTube, Flickr