Annotated Bibliography: Visual Media and Copyright Laws

This annotated bibliography examines the intersection of copyright laws and visual media, focusing on photography, digital culture, and their implications for social media platforms. The bibliography analyzes four key sources: Rose's 'Visual Methodologies,' which explores various methods for interpreting visual materials but lacks a neutral account of these methods and doesn't adequately address copyright laws; Hand's 'Making Digital Cultures,' which examines digital technologies and environmental culture, and discusses copyright issues, but fails to address the preponderance of copyright laws across time periods; Williams's article on 'Technology and Society,' which discusses the impact of television as a technological marvel, and its relation to society; and Sontag's 'On Photography,' which discusses the distinction between reality and photographs but doesn't explicitly connect photography with copyright laws. These sources collectively highlight the complexities of copyright in the digital age, emphasizing the need for a nuanced understanding of laws, regulations, and their impact on the creation, dissemination, and protection of visual content, including discussion of the role of organizations like WIPO, and treaties like the Beijing Treaty and Geneva Convention in monitoring and regulating copyright.

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Which organization is monitoring social media for copyright of photography
and what are rules and laws.
Rose, G. (2016). Visual methodologies: An introduction to researching with visual
materials sage.
The following book does not provide any insight of the account that is neutral in the
various methods that are available for the interpretation of the visual materials. Significant
differences have been spotted in the many theories of visualization. In the first chapter, the
author have agreed with those particular scholar that have argued about the interpretation of
images that are to be addressed as the social effect of the pictures, the effect that on image that
could be achieved by both effectiveness and being meaningful. WIPO is the association that that
handles the copyright regulations regarding photography. There are laws and treaties that
monitor the copyright laws. The WIPO Lex database that allows to monitor the copyright laws
for photographs.
The position of an image that have implication as the ways at which the author have
subsequently accessed the different methods that are discussed in the book. An example of a
method known as quantitative that could be deployed by relating in the issues of emphasizing the
meaning and the effects of quantitative method.
In each of the chapters the author have thoroughly discussed about the different concepts
of visualization. In chapter 2, the author have discussed about the concept of practical work and
framework that are used for the approach of editing the images in various ways. Chapter 4 to 12
the author have discussed about the methods that are used to interpret about the visual images
and the materials. Each chapter draws the exploration of visual materials that are methods of

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exploring the image and the methods of procedure and strengths and the weaknesses. In chapter
3, the author have discussed about the various concepts of visual methods. Although, the author
have not mentioned about any maps or film poster. The book has an in depth analysis of each
and every methods.
In chapter 13, the author have provided a clear insight about the aspects of visual research
methods that is used for gaining popularity, which is further elaborated as the dissemination of
the results that are achieved from the research using the images. The process of the research
looks in many ways that could be used for the research, which includes info graphics, photo-
essay and interactive documentaries. Technologies that deals with digital methods have used for
the making of platforms to the work in much easier ways.
Lastly, the author have provided guidance for the investigation of the meaning and effects
of the visual images. The author also commented that the thrill of this method lies in not
implementation of visual image, but in sound methodology.
The advantage of this article is that it looks in to the varying concepts of visualization.
However, an important limitation of this article is that it does not provide any insight of the
account that is neutral in the various methods that are available for the interpretation of the visual
materials. The existing literature gap in this article is that not enough laws have been mentioned
which deals with copyright laws and regulations.
Hand, M. (2016). Making digital cultures: Access, interactivity, and authenticity.
Routledge.
The book have examined the thorough processes that is used by digital technologies and
also the techniques that are being enclosed with the various prospective of fabrics of the

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institutional that are specifies and the broader concept of environmental culture. The author have
discussed about the significant of culture that have shifted from analogue to digitalization, but
the book is not about the triumph of the digitalization that have been enjoyed by the various
senses that are homogenous. It is often classified as the alliances of uneasy and in between the
object of digital and analogue, and differences between the processes and the practices. The book
also provides an insight of about the differences that would help in understanding the both
theories and the practices that are directly engaged with the turn of digitalization. There have not
been any particular model that describes digital culture. In essence to that, the author tries to
signify the illumination of the tendencies that are emerging at the very different moments and at
variant places, from the perspective of the different theories that discussed in the book. Rather
than just reading, the book helps in understanding the implication of digital culture and also it
looks into the digital turns from the view point of library of public, organizational business and
archive of nature. The author also questionnaires each of the methods that are used as a means
for understanding the involvement of natural archives, and its architects. The book discusses
about the facts that how for some of the advocates and the detractors the involvement that are
shifting for the trend of the environmental trends it involves in the engagement with many novel
businesses and many other practices that are related with the interactive of digitalization and
digital culture out there. The book also make sure about the authenticity of the methods and the
possibility of digital culture in managing the history.
The Beijing Treaty on the Audio-visual performances monitors the social media for any
copyright of any audio files or visual files.
The strength of the book is the methods that it suggests for monitoring the broader
concept of environmental culture. However, a significant limitation is that the book provides a

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vivid concept regarding the organizational business and archive nature of the impact that would
be on the organizations not obeying the laws. The existing gap that can be observed in this book
is that the author has failed to take in to cognizance the preponderance of copyright laws in both
the time periods of publishing and digitization.
Williams, R. (2003). The technology and the society. Television: Critical Concepts in Media
and Cultural Studies, 2, 42.
In the book, the author have discussed about the facts of that how technology and society
have gone together by hand in hand. In the chapter, the author has provided an insight for the
reader about the invention of television, that how it was one of the technological marvel at that
time, how it was seen as one of the most important invention of the century. The author also
discusses about various questions that have arisen in the book about the philosophical and the
unresolved issues in the society. The society is seen as the prime consumer of the products that is
produced by television. The author questions about the social behavioural changes that animation
or other programs imply on the society.
The book discusses about the Geneva Convention for the protection of producers of
phonograms against unauthorised duplication which is also another laws related to the copyright
laws and regulation. The strength of this book is that the books provides information about the
how television being an technological marvel as it have been used for circulating information,
news and entertain people around the world. Although there is a drawback in the book that
clearly foes not provides information about the unsolved psychological issues that is raised in the
book, there is no proper explanation behind the reason of the rising of the issues. The existing
gap in the book thus lies here, in its failure to analyse the humane issues connected with the
problem of copyright.

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Sontag, S. (2001). On photography (Vol. 48). Macmillan.
In the article, the author is of the view that reality has often been linked to photographs
and images. In this context, she draws reference from the imagery provided by Plato in terms of
his cave allegory. According to Plato, people are chained in a cave and the only thing which is
shown to them is in the form of shadows. They perceive this to be the reality as they do not any
idea of the outside world. The shadows are shown by those in power and they do this in order to
gain the trust of the innocent and ignorant people. However, if the same chained people manage
to escape the cave, they might be able to see the reality. The initial light of the sun may blind
them as they have spent their entire life in a darkened cave. However, if they manage to adjust
their orientation, then they will be able to understand real freedom. Sontag (2001) is of the same
view. Photographs only represent the reality, they are not the exact resemblance of it.
The strength of this article is that the author understand the vague distinction between the
reality and the photographs as is shown to the people. However, she fails to draw a conclusion as
did Plato in his allegory of the cave. She merely stated what was going wrong in the society. The
gap observed in this article is that it fails to draw a distinct relation between photography and
copyright laws and regulations. It simply talks about the differences between reality and
imagination.

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Bibliography:
Hand, M. (2016). Making digital cultures: Access, interactivity, and authenticity. Routledge
Sontag, S. (2001). On photography (Vol. 48) Macmillan.
Rose, G. (2016). Visual methodologies: An introduction to researching with visual
materials sage
Williams, R. (2003). The technology and the society. Television: Critical Concepts in Media
and Cultural Studies, 2, 42.