BASC 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Mike Masnick, False Dilemma, Denis Diderot
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Not radical today: guys wearing dresses we"re in a phase right now and it is still shocking even among people who would accept it, but in 30-40 years it probably won"t provoke an action. Ip law (basics 101: internet is provoking the appropriateness of ip, do you need ip law for credit, copyright and patents are important for establishing credit but its not necessary, other mechanisms for credit. Alternative licenses that challenge copyright give out credit. Hackers against intellectual property are not against credit. Precise ways of dealing with attribution through technologies. Peer review is therefore needed: most academics want their ideas out there and not copyrighted, but the journals don"t because they make money off the copyright. If they have a salary base at least, they don"t have to worry. Monkey with the camera caters new agency said they owned the photograph and threatened to sue if they did not take the photo off techdirt.