MCOM 4003-Sydney Wader

First I want to start of explaining what exactly exploitation is and how it works. Exploitation is when someone uses a story of their own or a public story for their own personal gain. We see different cases of exploitation in the media every week and it's not always the same topic either. The sad part is people will use sad stories to scam money out of people. I was browsing Facebook late the other night and came across a story that just didn't sit right with me.  A four year old boy Nolan Scully was diagnosed with terminal cancer and recently passed away in February. After the young boy fought for his life for a year sadly like I said before lost his life a year after being diagnosed. The mother was very active in sharing Nolan's story on social media. Constantly sharing updates and photos about her little boys battle with cancer. Now here is where I got interested, in 2017 someone set up a donation page using pictures of Nolan and his story to make money for them...

Have you ever listened to a song and suddenly you think i've heard this before? You're not the only one, the world is full of copy cats that try to sneak around the rules. Copy right is defined as "the exclusive legal right, given to an originator or an assignee to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to authorize others to do the same." Now when we think about copyright we have to take into account what fair use is and how it works. Fair Use is defined as "The doctrine that brief excerpts of copyright material may, under certain circumstances, be quoted verbatim for purposes such as criticism, news reporting, teaching, and research, without the need for permission from or payment to the copyright holder." Music has always played a big role in my life the old and the new. A classic song from the 80's called I Want a New Drug written by Huey Lewis is a song I wasn't quite familiar with. However, ...

According to Google reporter's privilege is "reporter's protection under constitutional or statutory law, from being compelled to testify about confidential information or sources." Now reporter's privilege is always popping up in our news and I've never really understood it until now. Buzzfeed was in court this past week in Florida when a judge was questioning who the confidential source was for the Trump Dossier. Buzzfeed stated that they should not have to release who the reporter was that worked on the controversial story. Now the big problem Buzzfeed is facing is the law suit from Russian tech creator Aleksej Gurbarev suing for defamation . The Trump Dossier had Gurbarev and his company named in the documents that discussed Trump's deep ties with Russia. Now the problem is with this lawsuit the court is demanding the name of a confidential source to be released which legally they do not have to. Buzzfeed is also boosting stories about sexual a...