CMST 3II3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Richard Stallman, Digital Rights Management, Copyleft

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CMST 3II3
• Professor: Dr. Murphy

Document Summary

This week we"ll continue with this idea on who can own ideas. Answer 15 m/c questions (1 mark each) Answer short answer questions 5 marks each. If he talks about something a bunch of times. If you"re listening, then it"s a guide of what he cares about. Novel use of existing copyright law to ensure a work remains freely available for se. Different from letting work pass into the public domain, or choosing not to exercise ownership rights. Taking legal regimes in order to protect properly acquiring licenses so that people can keep things for free. It"s different from letting work pass through the public domain. A variety of approaches that tinker, hack or repurpose copyright law often for the purpose of mitigating its effect. Often involves the drafting of software licenses that have been upheld as begin legally binding a variety of jurisdictions. Strong copyleft: designed to spread virally, derivative works are bound by the same license.