CRI 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Open-Source Software, Traditional Knowledge, Copyright Infringement
2 Apr 2016
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Even if we have good legal advice, copyright can make us itchy or resive, doesn"t seem to match our sense of what is right. The law oten works best when it approaches common sense. Copyright doesn"t always perform well when it come to policy objecives such as freedom of expression, broad paricipaion, and preservaion. As a market mechanism, copyright privileges market value over other ways of thinking about what is important. Copyright provides an incenive for some kinds of creaivity and disseminaion, but not for others. Older technologies such as storytelling and tradiional medicine pose a challenge to ip law. Indigenous tradiional knowledge(tk) has other sorts of value as well, value that moivates many of those advocaing its special treatment. Indigenous groups have diiculty efecively protecing these kinds of value through the copyright and patent systems. It is old, unixed, and has no single author.
