User talk:Pavithrans/Copyright and Law Seminar

This is a review of "Copyright and Law Seminar" article of User:Pavithrans by User:Rouslan.kv. This review is the final student task of Web Science MOOC. In general the article is good, although it looks like a bit short. But there are some aspects that could be discussed.

First of all, spelling errors and typos. All of them can be easily fixed using some spellchecker, so it does not look like a critical issue. Also the article is written from a first person (at least some things from the introduction section). In the scientific writing it is better to use "the author(s) of the article", "an reseach was conducted" etc. rather than "I", "I've conducted the research" etc. Besides, it would be nice to add some images that would illustrate some features described in the review. Quiz quesions are not necessary here, but if there is a plan to add some it can be discussed here. Also there were some minor changes in grammar and styles, see the related changes history.

=Introduction section= Here should be just a brief description of what will be discussed in the article so things like "Me and user:rouslan.kv have choosen the topic of Copyright and Law." should be avoided.

=Abbreviation section= There is some more abbreviation used there as one can see from the article. For example ASP. So may be the list of the abbreviations should contain all of the abbreviations used? Besides that, it may be helpful to add a links to wiki pages of these things. Measure to counter filtering =Censorship section= This chapter contains only an introductory statement. It would be great to develop a little more topic-related things. Again, it could be a brief description of what will be discussed later in the sub-chapters. Another idea of introduction development: Analog sources censorship can be mentioned and compared to a digital ones. May be some parallels between it could be created, censorship methods could be briefly described etc. (example: electronic news sources vs. printed newspapers censorships). Besides, seems that here should be a link to Mr. Berners Lee's "decentralised and free" concept of the Internet.

=Internet regulation section= Again, feels like here should be some introductory statement (brief description of the chapter contents, introduction to some technical aspects etc.).

By ISP section
"Internet Service Providers try to regulate the Internet by blocking certain sites which they deem to be inappropriate." here is not clear which and by whoom some Internet resources can be treated as inappropriate. More detailed description of such ISPs, goals of such blocking and some exmaples would make it more precise. For exmaple. politicaly motivated blockings in some coutries (Iran, Russia, China - for the last one the Great Chinese Firewall or Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 information blocking could be mentioned). Besides it could be helpful to add more detailed description of the technical aspects presented in the sub-chapter, or just give a link to an article which describes such things.

Moreover, it would be great to add some other organisations which can regulate the Internet besides ASP (like state (common case is a political motivation), network admins (block some resources which are not related to a certain activities which supposed to be performed whithing this network - an office network administratos sometimes block the social networks, online game portals etc.)

=Measure to counter filtering section= An introductory statement should be added to this one. May be it would be better to describe some technical aspects of such activities like in the previous chapter. Also, some alternative ways to work around can be mentioned like | Tor, I2p, cryptography or some others. Besides the chapters name looks not so good. May be it would be better to use something like "Workarounds to escape the regulation" or something similar (this can be discussed).

By State section
Looks like this sub-chapter belongs to previous "Internet regulation" chapter, so it should be moved there. The above comments are relevant for it's contetnts. May be here some surveillance disclosures which illustrate the issue should also be added.

=Scientific Publishing section= Here some works like master thesis or phd thesis could be mentioned. May be it would look more clear with some more detailed description or links to the mentioned things.

Open Access section
Looks like "ACM" should be referenced or described in more detail. Also some more examples of opened up access journals would be helpful.

=Copyright owners section= Some words about who are copyright owners in general could be helpful.

Collecting Societies section
Here should be a link to Collecting Societies wiki article. Although one of the main topics of the article are German Collecting Societies it would be useful to give examples of such organizations in other countries or may be ainternational ones. A breif introduction to a global-local copyright issues also may take place.

GEMA section
Here can be a link to GEMA description page or just a couple of description words. (Strange, but wiki does not have a GEMA article in English so it can be created as a related task). Perhaps it is a good idea to include some materials about GEMA from an appropriate Web Science MOOC session.

Gema and youtube section
From the current state of the article it looks like GEMA only blocks videos from YouTube, but the main aim of this organization is not described. May be it is worth to mention how some dishonest users do not respect the law and use plugins like ProxTube or YouTube Unblocker or ways described in section "Measure to counter filtering" to overcome the issue.

VG Wort section
Here is the same issue: link to Verwertungsgesellschaft Wort is missing. (The same issue as with GEMA wiki article, no non-German version is available).

=DRM, Future of copyright section= The introduction section need to be developed. May it is better to include some pros&cons of the DRM? Also, would be good to see some examples on how it works. Some technical and legal aspects and methods also could be useful. The topic could also describe different DRM related content types and products.

Protests and Rollback section
Here could be more detailed description of the reason why including "DRM in the songs purchased via Itunes" caused the protests. May be some other cases also.

DRM clause in GPLV3 section
More detailed description of the clause which could help to build a clear picture of Gpl can be added. Also again, some pros&cons of such clause could be dicsussed.

Privacy section
Nowadays this is very important topic so would be great to expand it in the context of DRM. Which technologies are used to protect privacy? Which problems are common for this in scope of DRM? May be it is possible to suggest a concept that would help to improve the things (this is a topic for discussion). Besides, the same as for previous chapter comments, here it would be nice to see some real-life examples of the issue, perhaps make some analysis (brief) of it etc.

Free Software Foundation section
Looks like this section belongs to "DRM clause in GPLV3" sub chapter. So this sub topic could be developed in scope of the mentioned sub-chapter.

--Rouslan.kv (discuss • contribs) 13:25, 26 March 2014 (UTC)