Future of Intellectual Property

Group members

Aarti Khoesial
Ashwina Soekhoe
Min Yin (Casey) Yap
Sandhya Lalloesingh
Yue Zhang

Introduction

As first year ICT in Business students we have done this assignment for the course ICT Planning. This assignment was about choosing a topic and discribing it's future evolution. We choose to discribe the Future of Intellectual property, as this is a big issue with the upcoming Web 2.0.

Introducing Web 2.0

What is Web 2.0 ?

Web 2.0 is a Buzzword!

Web 2.0 is a State of Mind

Web 1.0 Vs Web 2.0

  * AltaVista vs Google
  * Hotmail vs Yahoo Mail
  * Ofoto vs Flickr
  * Mp3.com vs iTunes
  * Geocities vs Blogger
  * MapQuest vs Google Maps
  * Encarta vs Wikipedia
  * Netscape vs Firefox
  * DoubleClick vs GoogleAdSense
  * Domain name speculation vs Search engine optimization
  * Page views vs Cost per click
  * Publishing vs Participation

Research Questions

Ashwina
1.What is Intellectual Property?
2.The past and current situation of Intellectual Property.
3.What are the problems with the current Intellectual Property Rights?
4.In whose interest is the current system
5.What are the issues in Web 2.0 that is related to Intellectual Property?
6.How can the copy right problems in Web 2.0 be resolved by using intellectual property rights?

Sandhya

1.What is patent/licensing of intellectual property?
2.What is the current situation on patent and licensing of intellectual property?
3.Who sets the policy for intellectual property?
4.Does intellectual property patent differ in the world?
5.What is MAPP (Marketing and patent program)?
6.What kind of licenses are there?
7.What are the political debates/criticisms and news nowadays(future situation)?

Casey
1.What is Web 2.0?
2.What are the applications of Web 2.0?
3.What is the current view of IP in Web 2.0?
4.What is the difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0?

Aarti
1.What are Creative Commons and what is the aim of it?
2.Which licenses do Creative Commons offer?
3.How to use a Creative Common license?
4.Hot news about Creative Commons!
5.Can Creative Commons solve the emerging Intellecutal Property problem in the future Web 2.0?

Zhang Yue
What is Creative Commons?

• Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others legally to build upon and share.
• Creative Commons website enables copyright holders to grant some of their rights to the public while retaining others through a variety of licensing and contract schemes including dedication to the public domain or open content licensing terms. The intention is to avoid the problems current copyright laws create for the sharing of information.

What is the aim of Creative Commons?

• To counter the effects of the dominant and increasingly restrictive permission culture pervading modern society
• A culture pressed hard upon society by traditional content distributors in order to maintain and strengthen their monopolies on cultural products such as popular music and popular cinema.

Who will use Creative Commons?

• Individuals and organisations have made use of the Creative Commons licences already. Organisations such as OpenContent in the USA have been promoting the release of educational materials under open licences since the late 1990s. OpenContent had even produced their own Open Publication License. Educational establishments such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Carnegie Mellon University and The Open University in the UK have released learning materials under Creative Commons licences. In May 2004 the BBC announced that it intended to make much material from its archives available under an open licence. This project, called the BBC Creative Archive, launched in early 2005 with a licence modelled very closely on the Creative Commons licence (the BBC argue that they are obliged to impose additional restrictions, such as clearly stating that they do not endorse adapted versions of their material).

The past vs current situation of Creative Commons.

What are the issues in Creative Commons that is related to IP?

Driving Forces

Technological

• Booming of Internet Industry (Yue)
• Change in the channel of information: from traditional media to Internet
• Peer to peer file sharing
• Digtalization technology

Societal

• Pattern of entertainment (Yue)
• The atmostphere of "sharing everything"
• Users demand

Economical

• Books are becoming more and more expensive

References

• Group Log
• Read me, important!
• Resources about Web2.0
• Creative Commons
• Open Content
• Open Source
• Intellectual Property
• MAPP
• Final report_Future of Creative Commons
• Yue's Notes