CMST 3II3 Lecture 13: March 27th
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Lecture 13a: piracy and the future of intellectual property. Situation where there are all kinds of instances that occur in our every day lives where one could argue that we are technically infringing, think about how: a lot of us consume media, technologies. When you"re reading something on a website, your computer is making a copy without permission. This class: infringement: rethinking the concepts/categories. Next class: piracy: in the creative industries, fashion. Traditionally speaking you look at infringement as bad, something that is taking away from your ip: this argument is making the case that you might want people to infringe on their ideas. Video games one interesting case is mod: modding as a violation of ip, modding is seen as a unique innovative approach. When we start monetizing content online, it raises many complicated issues. 4 factors used to determine fair use (us perspective: the purpose and character of the use (commercial/non commercial use)