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 describing it's future evolution. We have chosen to describe the Future of Intellectual property, as this is a big issue with the upcoming Web 2.0. Intellectual property rights on Web 2.0 is a hot topic for a number of reasons. These include:

(1) What rights should be associated with Web content?

(2) How should the rights be expressed?

(3) Should the expression of the rights be used for notification, enforcement or payment negotiation?

(4) How far does the technology requires us to change the legal understanding or status of copyright as it is now?

Introducing Web 2.0

Web 2.0 ?

Web 2.0 is a Buzzword!

Web 2.0 is a State of Mind

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.Evolution of the Internet

2.What is Web 2.0?

3.What are the applications/softwares of Web 2.0?

4.What is the difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0?

5.What is the current view of IP in Web 2.0?

6.What are the possible approaches to deal with IP in 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

1.What is open content?

2.Could you give me some examples about open content?

3.Who will use Creative Commons?

4.The past vs current situation of Creative Commons.

5.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 (Casey)

• Digtalization technology

Societal

• Pattern of entertainment (Yue)

• The atmostphere of "sharing everything"

• Users demand (Casey)

Economical

• Books are becoming more and more expensive

Environmental

References

• Group Log

• Resources about Web2.0

• Creative Commons

• Open Content

• Open Source

• Intellectual Property

• MAPP

• Final report_Future of Creative Commons

• Yue's Notes