Research Questions of Intellectual Property

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.Who will use Creative Commons?

2.What is open content?

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

4.What's the differences between open content and free content?

5.What are the issuess in open content that are related to IP?