Current copyright laws outdated!
Copyright issues are a hot debate item at many universities at the moment. Intellectual property, another hot button word keeps popping up. The internet has changed and blurred our current copyright laws. Once something is put on the internet it is in the public domain so the expectation must be there that huge numbers of users will read, quote and share what is up there.
Current copyright laws were meant to be applied to print materials, as that is the era in which they were written. It is difficult to apply these same laws to digital property. Larry Lessig’s keynote presentation at Educause (2009) was my initial introduction to Creative Commons. This presentation is well worth watching if you haven’t seen it already.
Creative Commons enables authors of content to license their work with the uses they intended the work to have and bypasses the expensive, time consuming restrictions of current copyright laws. The intent of CC puts the power back into the hands of authors of content enabling them to maintain rights and privileges to their intellectual property under their terms.
Liang on the other hand appears to lean more towards to open source philosophy, freeing all cyberspace users and putting content into the public domain. Both agree that copyright laws are out dated and that changes need to be made in our new digital culture however their approach is different.
I am more of the Lessig mindset and support the CC approach to digital content and intellectual property.
Creative Commons: A Shared Culture
Creative Commons is a great overview of how these licenses help foster sharing and creativity. I’ve always believed in the power of open access, and it’s great to see more people embracing this idea. In my college tasks, I try to combine creativity with the latest tech innovations. See https://medium.com/@george.kv/mysupergeek-review-2024-420302790a2d for more ideas that will let you to free some time if you are a college student. Basically, you will have more time for creativity.