Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Public Domain
What is "Intellectual Property..."?
"Intellectual property is a subtle and esoteric area of the law that evolves in response to technological change. Advances in technology particularly affect the operation and effectiveness of copyright law". RONALD H. BROWN "Report Of The Working Group On Intellectual Property Rights,?"
The issues discussed in Lawrence Lessig article of "The Public Domain" it is known that historically public domain was always equally represented by private domain. In other words they were equally balanced when concerning the copyright law.
The Internet has truly confused "Intellectual Property" and Copyright laws, which allowed the term private domain to be erased or nonexisting. Everything now is accessible on the Internet for free. Lessig brings up a great point of piracy being the issue on the Internet, which brings up the fact that the truth is, that our leaders are more worried about and dependent on reviews and ticket sales.
A great example of the issue of private domain, being overthrown by public domain via Internet, is currently the rise and fall of the music industry. Majority of consumers are no longer buying or downloading music if it has a price attached to it. This brings up the issues of copyright infringement in which people are allowed to download music for free. Websites like LimeWire.com, imeem.com,and Youtube you can get music for free.
This subject also brings up the topic discussed earlier in the semester about "Who's Watching" Privacy from Surveillance to "Sousveillance". It relates because privacy is not really relevant in today's tech society nothing is kept a secret.
