2.4 Content sharing

Content sharing

Content sharing is a general term that allows users to share information, photos, videos and other media in a variety of ways. With web 2.0 there has been significant changes in the way we share this information as described in this topic.

Folksonomy Vs Taxonomy
Folksonomy uses 'tags' to describe content which lets users contribute to the cataloging of the medium. This can be seen as a bottom up approach to structuring a site rather than the more heirarchial 'top down' structure. Examples of this can be seen with delicious, flickr and youtube.
Flickr in particular intergrates its service with other web 2.0 techologies and allows users to search for photos via location through geo-tagging (intergrating google maps into its service) and also a timeline search allowing for a more detailed search.

Copyrights
Copyright is a difficult area for me to understand so by explaining wht I know it might make it clearer. When companies produce books, videos, Music CDs and DVDs they expect to get some returns on the investment. With the advent of content sharing and broadband, it has allowed these contents to be shared, often illegally through the form of piracy. This type of sharing is a clear violation of copyright issues.

A more hazzy issue is when content is changed slightly to produce a dirivative of the original work but with a twist. This can be seen through parady movies that combine 2 or more movies to make a funny new movie. Although media companies still complain about this being a copyright infringement.

One way to avoid copyright infringement is by the use of creative commons which allows for content to be edited, used and changed for non-commercial use.

My creative commons poster

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