Week 4: Pirates and Plagiarism

Piracy and plagiarism basically are the two same things, what makes them different is just the pirated material. Technically both of them are like stealing someone else’s work without any permission. Even most of people they did not realize if they ever done a piracy from any material like music, movies, and many more

According to Chalkey (2012, pg. 237) "pirate or piracy is the act of copying material that we have not paid for. It can be for personal use or in some case, commercial gain. For any motivation to do pirate, the most common one is for personal use and share it." 

So why people do pirate because it is free and easier to get, people will always think that. Why should they spend lots of money if they can get it free. People do not need to go to any store and spend their money to get what they wanted. But piracy is piracy for any reasons. Another reason people do pirate is because everyone else is doing the same thing and people might think, if nobody see them do it so there is no way they can prove anything from it.

There is a study that been doing research about piracy towards some countries specifically around 2011, that stating there is 62% of Central and Eastern Europe doing piracy as the highest presentation of other counties. http://globalstudy.bsa.org/2011/

For those remixers like mashup artists, DJs, pastiche and bricolage producers and digital media artist, well we could not just call them as doing pirate because in this art and music industry I believe there is an influence between each artists or each songs from the idea, genre, style or anything. So we cannot really call a mashup artists, DJs and others are doing pirate or plagiarism as long as they give credit to the owner or write the original song in order to give respect for the owner.

Different in Indonesia, lots of artists like singer they do plagiarism the song, idea, or even dance choreography from artists other country like K-Pop or whatever it is. (I do follow some news in Indonesia sometimes)

Talking about piracy, and since I'm from Indonesia as well I'm not sure piracy is a big deal here in Indonesia. If you guys want to know, Indonesia is like doing huge huge piracy. Just want to share like, there are lots of place like in Indonesia they are selling lots of copied CD and DVD, movies and music and sell it with very very cheap price it is like Rp7,000 which means about 7cents. Makes me even confuse consider it as benefits for me or what.

Chalkey, T 2012, 'Technology, Piracy, Creativity and Ownership', Communication, New Media and Everyday Life, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne.

The Software Alliance 2012, 'Global Software Piracy', retrieved 22 August 2013, http://globalstudy.bsa.org/2011/

Week 3: Music, Fashion, and Food as ART CULTURE?

This week topic is really interesting, is about art movements in globalisation. It is more like what art movement that has influenced or compared with my own culture. I personally love diversity, especially culture diversity :) because somehow it is just like beautiful and unique to see every single individual for example brings their own culture which help us to know about others as well. "There is a now a world culture, but we had better make sure we understand what this means; not a replication of uniformity but an organisation of diversity, an increasing interconnectedness of varied local cultures, as well as a development of cultures without a clear anchorage in any one territory. And to this interconnected diversity people can relate in different ways." (Jan Nederveen 2007, pg. 76) For this week topic I will talk about my personal view regarding the art culture like music, fashion and food.

If we look back into 90's and we compare with nowadays music I believe we can see such a huge gap different with them. I mean not only how they create or compose the music, I'm talking about the different taste and sense of music people nowadays compared with couple years ago. Lots of old songs that has been remade with new arrangement and type but it sold lots of copies and many people liking it. For example Journey - Don't Stop Believing is like 80's song but Glee remade it with new sensation without changed the main song and yes it went pretty well I can say. 

(Journey - Don't Stop Believing)

(Glee - Don't Stop Believing)

I personally do following up many cultures out there from many aspect. I often follow up music from many different country and type like US, UK, Australia as some of the english songs but I also like Korean and Japanese songs, mandarin songs from Taiwan, China, Malaysia and Singapore. I mean like I don't even know the meaning of the songs like I cant even speak korean, japanese or even mandarin but somehow I just enjoy it.


Talking about other culture from other countries, things applied differently in different circumstances.

This picture pretty much says everything, I mean like culture has been raised by society around as well. I'm not saying in America you cannot dress like that or you look bad as a guy you dressed like in the picture. But my point is again the culture is different, in America the "real" guy supposed to be dressed like a real muscular macho guy because might be influenced by Hollywood. Influenced by different things, not only the guys but most of people in Korea they get influenced or obsessed with K-POP or korean drama which they have "pretty" boy instead of macho guy.

I believe food is part of an art as well, if it is not well at least it is for me. In essence that just like an art that been raised in different culture, food itself has a culture as well in different places. For example, McDonald got a mascot statue is like a clown with yellow and red colour. Somehow it crossed my mind how smart they are to make different kind of statue to match with some cultures in other countries. For example McDonald in Thailand, they got a clown statue in front of the store with his hand like give greeting, following Thailand's culture how they usually greet people.

Not only that, maybe it is weird for some of you knowing that McDonald is selling rice with fried chicken but it is the fact. Jump to Indonesia, following the culture how Indonesian as part of Asian love to eat rice and fried food (I think that is why they make fried chicken in McD).

References

Pieterse, J 2007, 'Global Multiculture, Flexible Acculturation', Globalizations, 4, 1, pp. 65-79, Academic Search Complete, EBSCOhost, viewed 16 August 2013.