I intentionally left my last post to the end after completing the essay so I can freely comment on what I have learnt by choosing such subject.

As technology advances in a way where no one can predict even those who believe can look in to the next five to ten year s of coming technologies  but in no way can anyone predict further than that, therefore I have a feeling that these Creative Common licenses will evolve and change as new technologies emerges.

I personally have benefited for some years of open source software which I have used endlessly from CMS (Content management Systems) to software such as Audacity. These softwares and products all come under these licenses and personally I have never looked deeply in their  different categories, and thought that all opensource material is free to use as long as you give attribution which is the basis of CC, but other restrictions were unknown to me.

I feel I have benefited a lot from this module and it really added a great deal of information and knowledge in the law of technologies.

My concentration was mainly on the software laws because that is what interests me, but hopefully in the near future I will start to read more in the hardware laws in such cases as iPhone and Google phone to come.

I spent the last few days trying to fix my blog to work with ie7 thinking its something to do with the theme I chose. I downloaded so many themes but they all seem to have the same problem which is not displaying my second post. It shows it fine in all other different browsers. So I thought to myself “Forget it being so artistic Mo, and just stick to the good old wordpress default theme”. So I changed it back to the default theme and to my surprise the problem still exists. I have no idea why ie7 don’t like my 2nd post.
Anyway, am just puzzled why a product like ie7 which has so much resources and backing from the biggest company in the world always seems to be in the downside, give me one good review on ie version and I can give you thousands of good reviews for other opensource browsers.
So my dear readers please dump your ie7 and try to use other browsers even if it’s for the sake of reading my posts
Have a good day

Coming from a graphic design background, I treat text as a block of graphics. For me to keep the creativity in my design un-interrupted, I cannot look at text like editors would look at it, otherwise I will loose the visual creative mind. But when it comes to licenses and using resources other than your own the graphic designer has to wear the hat of a lawyer and leave creativity aside to read through the small print. Otherwise a hefty fine can be on your door step which unfortunately happened to me.

The openness of the internet and the massive resources that it holds can be disadvantage to you if you not been careful on how to use it.

I once was designing a website for a small clothing company,  and I was looking for image of two hands shaking, so I thought I would look for one on the web and see if I can change it so it looses its originality. So I did. Four years later I received a letter from a well-known news agency detailing that I have used one of their photos without paying for it or crediting it and the amazing thing is that they outlined aspect of that image to the original, although the image was cropped and changed, some of its features was still present. The fine was for £1,500. Fortunately we had a good lawyer in the house and managed to send them an apology and waved the fine to £0.

For me it was a lesson never to forget, it could have been worse which is to loose my Job.

The moral of the story, no matter how good you might think you are in manipulating other work. Don’t do it, technology is well advance to find you.