Future of Intellectual Property

Group members

Aarti Khoesial

Ashwina Soekhoe

Min Yin (Casey) Yap

Sandhya Lalloesingh

Yue Zhang

Driving Forces

Technological

• Booming of Internet Industry (Yue)

• Open standards (Casey)

• Peer to peer file sharing (Casey)

• Digtalization technology

Societal

• Pattern of entertainment (Yue)

• Reducing intermediaries and saving money and time(Sandhya)

• Users demand (Casey)

• Sharing information (Sandhya)

• Increasing Piracy Aarti

Economical

• Teamwork across physical geographic boundaries (Aarti)
• Books are becoming more and more expensive

Political

• Legacy System Ashwina
• Globalization Ashwina

Environmental

References

• Resources about Web2.0

• Creative Commons

• Open Content

• Open Source

• Intellectual Property

• MAPP

• Final report_Future of Creative Commons