Posts Tagged ‘intellectual property’
Soundbite: #eg8 copyfight
Posted by: mariamz on: May 25, 2011
Property is something that can be taken from me. If I don’t have it, somebody else does. Expression is not like that. The notion that expression is like that is entirely a consequence of taking a system of expression and transporting it around, which was necessary before there was the Internet, which has the capacity to do this [...]
Tweets: whose words are they, anyway?
Posted by: mariamz on: March 10, 2011
Twitter users are accustomed to freely quoting other’s tweets (particularly when re-tweeting). But where does the law lie on tweets being published in a book? Extanz document the case of the US travel site zipsetgo, where tweeters became angry when they realised their tweets were to be used in this way. Apparently this is a [...]
Re-capturing creativity and autonomy in ‘the memetic economy’
Posted by: mariamz on: February 28, 2011
This video features Yochai Benkler discussing his incredibly important work on ‘the memetic economy.’ Key points: The ‘memetic economy’ is an emerging technological-economic condition – a new stage of ‘the information economy’ whose two defining characteristics are: An increased role for non-market production Radically decentralised production of information A meme in this sense is a unit of cultural transmission: covering [...]
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