CS101 Lecture Notes - Stuffed Toy, Apple Music, Trade Dress
Document Summary
What does it mean to own something. How do laws regarding intellectual property encourage or discourage creativity. Balance between rights of creator and users. Intellectual property = printed word, plays, everything in cultural/scientific sphere, anything you can claim as creative or innovative. Making copies of something is different than using something until it no longer exists. Eating a carrot makes it no longer exist, but watching. Publishers controlled dissemination of knowledge; however issues of sovereignty come up. 1538 henry viii clamped down on publishers, licensed them to some extentpeople would read and censor books before they were published. Patent: legal instrument issues by a sovereign that enabled the people to do what was allowed in the patent. Patent for collecting taxes, patent for publishing it was an open publication, print it, signed by monarch, and carried around and shown to people. Proliferated for a long time hundreds of conflicting patents issued by kings or queens, starting around 1300"s.
